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Low severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 1, 2022· Updated Sep 16, 2024

Bypass of Kubernetes API Server proxy TOCTOU

CVE-2020-8562

Description

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.

Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
k8s.io/kubernetesGo
>= 1.21.0, <= 1.21.1
k8s.io/kubernetesGo
>= 1.20.0, <= 1.20.7
k8s.io/kubernetesGo
>= 1.19.0, <= 1.19.11
k8s.io/kubernetesGo
<= 1.18.19

Affected products

1

Patches

0

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