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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-1702

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.

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1 Nov 2026, 05:32 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-1702

core-osv · Original source

Published 27 May 2021, 20:15 UTC

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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      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:30.179836268Z",
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