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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-10749

A vulnerability was found in all versions of containernetworking/plugins before version 0.8.6, that allows malicious containers in Kubernetes clusters to perform man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks. A malicious container can exploit this flaw by sending rogue IPv6 router advertisements to the host or other containers, to redirect traffic to the malicious container.

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1 Nov 2026, 07:12 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-10749

core-osv · Original source

Published 3 Jun 2020, 14:15 UTC

A vulnerability was found in all versions of containernetworking/plugins before version 0.8.6, that allows malicious containers in Kubernetes clusters to perform man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks. A malicious container can exploit this flaw by sending rogue IPv6 router advertisements to the host or other containers, to redirect traffic to the malicious container.

osv:CVE-2020-10749
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-10749",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 437173,
  "published_at": "2020-06-03T14:15:12.47+00:00"
}