Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-1702
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:32 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2020-1702
Complete source record
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