kubernetes — security advisory
The Kubelet and kube-proxy components in versions 1.1.0-1.16.10, 1.17.0-1.17.6, and 1.18.0-1.18.3 were found to contain a security issue which allows adjacent hosts to reach TCP and UDP services bound to 127.0.0.1 running on the node or in the node's network namespace. Such a service is generally thought to be reachable only by other processes on the same host, but due to this defeect, could be reachable by other hosts on the same LAN as the node, or by containers running on the same node as the service.
- Products
- kubernetes
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.18.5-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-8558
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 14:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The Kubelet and kube-proxy components in versions 1.1.0-1.16.10, 1.17.0-1.17.6, and 1.18.0-1.18.3 were found to contain a security issue which allows adjacent hosts to reach TCP and UDP services bound to 127.0.0.1 running on the node or in the node's network namespace. Such a service is generally thought to be reachable only by other processes on the same host, but due to this defeect, could be reachable by other hosts on the same LAN as the node, or by containers running on the same node as the service.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-8558
kubernetes
Fixed versions: 1.18.5-1
kubernetes
Fixed versions: 1.18.5-1
kubernetes
Fixed versions: 1.18.5-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-26T12:02:51.953856416Z",
"provider": "osv",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 453226,
"published_at": "2020-07-27T20:15:12.413+00:00"
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