CVE catalog
CVE-2020-8562
kubernetes: CVE-2020-8562
- Severity
- Low · CVSS 2.2
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - Published
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 1.19% · Oct 25, 2026
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.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | kubernetes | sid | 1.36.4+ds-1 | fixed |
| Debian | kubernetes | forky | 1.36.4+ds-1 | fixed |
| Debian | kubernetes | trixie | 1.32.3+ds-2 | fixed |
| Debian | kubernetes | bookworm | 1.20.5+really1.20.2-1.1+deb12u1 | fixed |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | kubernetes | source | sid | 1.20.5+really1.20.2-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [990793] |
| Debian | kubernetes | source | forky | 1.20.5+really1.20.2-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [990793] |
| Debian | kubernetes | source | trixie | 1.20.5+really1.20.2-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [990793] |
| Debian | kubernetes | source | bookworm | 1.20.5+really1.20.2-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [990793] |
OpenFactory catalog packages
[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]
- [kubernetes-client]Fixed
Source package: [kubernetes]
Details (2)
1.20.5+really1.20.2-1.1+deb12u1· amd64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
1.20.5+really1.20.2-1dsa · kubernetes · debian · bookworm; dsa · kubernetes · debian · 12
1.20.5+really1.20.2-1.1+deb12u1· arm64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
1.20.5+really1.20.2-1dsa · kubernetes · debian · bookworm; dsa · kubernetes · debian · 12
[Debian 13 (Trixie)]
- [golang-k8s-kubectl-dev]Fixed
Source package: [kubernetes]
Details (2)
1.32.3+ds-2· all · trixieFixed · Fixed:
1.20.5+really1.20.2-1dsa · kubernetes · debian · 13
1.32.3+ds-2· all · trixieFixed · Fixed:
1.20.5+really1.20.2-1dsa · kubernetes · debian · 13
- [kubectl]Fixed
Source package: [kubernetes]
Details (2)
1.32.3+ds-2· amd64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
1.20.5+really1.20.2-1dsa · kubernetes · debian · 13
1.32.3+ds-2· arm64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
1.20.5+really1.20.2-1dsa · kubernetes · debian · 13
- [kubernetes-client]Fixed
Source package: [kubernetes]
Details (2)
1.32.3+ds-2· amd64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
1.20.5+really1.20.2-1dsa · kubernetes · debian · 13
1.32.3+ds-2· arm64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
1.20.5+really1.20.2-1dsa · kubernetes · debian · 13
Observed:
References
- [https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/opensuse-su-2025_15424-1.json]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-8562]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-8562]
- [https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-8562]
- [https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2020/cve-2020-8562.json]
- [https://wid.cert-bund.de/.well-known/csaf/white/2024/wid-sec-w-2024-1488.json]
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