CVE-2020-1702: containers-image_project containers-image Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2020-1702 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in containers-image_project containers-image. EPSS estimates a 0.69% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 52.7% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 3.3, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 5Timeline
- 27-05-2021PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 04-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
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.
CVSS metrics
3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions- NVDNIST3.3LowCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LDiffers
EPSS trend
Probability
0.69%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
53%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.69% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: local access, no authentication, user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Redhat6 products
- enterprise_linux8.0
- containers-common< 1:0.1.40-11.el7_8
- cri-o< 0:1.11.16-0.9.dev.rhaos3.11.git6d43aae.el7
- cri-o-debuginfo< 0:1.11.16-0.9.dev.rhaos3.11.git6d43aae.el7
- skopeo< 1:0.1.40-11.el7_8
Containers-image_project1 product
- containers-image< 5.2.0
2 vendors · 7 products
