CVE-2020-1702
containers/image: Container images read entire image manifest into memory
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · January 20, 2020
Updated · June 27, 2026
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.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 3.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption