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CVE-2020-8562

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)…

Severity
Low 3.1
Published
1 Feb 2022
Last changed
17 Jun 2026
Added to UpHeron
1 Nov 2026
Sources
NVD

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
KubernetesServers and applications · cpe:a:kubernetes:kubernetes
  • Every version up to 1.18.18
  • From 1.19.0 up to 1.19.10
  • From 1.20.0 up to 1.20.6
  • Version 1.21.0

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8562
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-8562