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Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2020-8558

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

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-8558

core-osv · Original source

Published 27 Jul 2020, 20:15 UTC

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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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-8558",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "DEBIAN-CVE-2020-8558",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-8558",
    "products": [
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          "evidence": "/affected/0/package/name"
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          }
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      },
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          },
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          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-26T12:02:51.953856416Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "upstream": [
        "CVE-2020-8558"
      ],
      "references": [
        "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-8558"
      ]
    },
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 453226,
  "published_at": "2020-07-27T20:15:12.413+00:00"
}