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CVE-2020-1702

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CVE-2020-1702

Published: May 27, 2021

Modified: Aug 4, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

containers/image

affected
containers-image 5.2.0

Weaknesses (CWE)

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