DEBIAN-CVE-2020-8562
As mitigations to a report from 2019 and CVE-2020-8555, Kubernetes attempts to prevent proxied connections from accessing link-local or localhost networks when making user-driven connections to Services, Pods, Nodes, or StorageClass service providers. As part of this mitigation Kubernetes does a DNS name resolution check and validates that response IPs are not in the link-local (169.254.0.0/16) or localhost (127.0.0.0/8) range. Kubernetes then performs a second DNS resolution without validation for the actual connection. If a non-standard DNS server returns different non-cached responses, a user may be able to bypass the proxy IP restriction and access private networks on the control plane.
Risk Scores
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Debian:13 | kubernetes | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:12 | kubernetes | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:11 | kubernetes | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:14 | kubernetes | 0, 0, 0 |
Exploit Intelligence
- CVE.json (github-poc)
Timeline
- Feb 1, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated