CVE-2020-1702

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2021-05-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-400

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.

Affected products

Containers-Image Project Containers-Image: before 5.2.0 — fixed in 5.2.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 8.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Containers-Image Project Containers-Image 5.2.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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