What is CVE-2020-1702?

CVE-2020-1702 is a low-severity vulnerability in Containers-Image Project, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 3.3/10. Published 2021-05-27.

How severe is CVE-2020-1702?

Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.3 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Containers-Image Project

CVE-2020-1702

A malicious container image can consume an unbounded amount of memory when being pulled to a container runtime host, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux using podman, or OpenShift Container Platform. An attacker can use this flaw to trick a user, with privileges to pull container images, into crashing the process responsible for pulling the image. This flaw affects containers-image versions before 5.2.0.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.007 (49.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 3.3 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

Affected products

Containers-image_project Containers-image
Redhat Enterprise_linux — versions 8.0
N/a Containers/image — versions containers-image 5.2.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-1702?: CVE-2020-1702 is a low-severity vulnerability in Containers-Image Project, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 3.3/10. Published 2021-05-27.
How severe is CVE-2020-1702?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.3 out of 10.