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.
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Affected Vendors & Products
Advisories
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EUVD |
EUVD-2022-1153 | 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. |
Github GHSA |
GHSA-qh36-44jv-c8xj | Potential proxy IP restriction bypass in Kubernetes |
Fixes
Solution
No solution given by the vendor.
Workaround
If this issue affects your clusters’ control planes, you can use dnsmasq for name resolution and configure the min-cache-ttl and neg-ttl parameters to a low non-zero value to enforce cached replies for proxied connections
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: kubernetes
Published:
Updated: 2024-09-16T17:08:37.065Z
Reserved: 2020-02-03T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2020-8562
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Status : Modified
Published: 2022-02-01T11:15:10.903
Modified: 2024-11-21T05:39:02.180
Link: CVE-2020-8562
OpenCVE Enrichment
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Github GHSA