Resource Exhaustion Affecting cockpit-podman package, versions <0:12-1.module+el8.2.0+5950+6d183a6a


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.69% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-COCKPITPODMAN-2032896
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed20 Jan 2020

Introduced: 20 Jan 2020

CVE-2020-1702  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:8 cockpit-podman to version 0:12-1.module+el8.2.0+5950+6d183a6a or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cockpit-podman package and not the cockpit-podman package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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 Base Scores

version 3.1