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.
Published: 2021-05-27
Score: 3.3 Low
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-12557 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.
History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00233}

epss

{'score': 0.00265}


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Containers-image Project Containers-image
Redhat Enterprise Linux Openshift Rhel Extras Other
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T06:46:30.897Z

Reserved: 2019-11-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-1702

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-05-27T20:15:07.993

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:11:12.160

Link: CVE-2020-1702

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2020-01-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-1702 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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