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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-20199

Rootless containers run with Podman, receive all traffic with a source IP address of 127.0.0.1 (including from remote hosts). This impacts containerized applications that trust localhost (127.0.01) connections by default and do not require authentication. This issue affects Podman 1.8.0 onwards.

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CVEs
CVE-2021-20199
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Updated in this feed
31 Oct 2026, 11:14 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2021-20199

core-osv · Original source

Published 2 Feb 2021, 19:15 UTC

Rootless containers run with Podman, receive all traffic with a source IP address of 127.0.0.1 (including from remote hosts). This impacts containerized applications that trust localhost (127.0.01) connections by default and do not require authentication. This issue affects Podman 1.8.0 onwards.

osv:CVE-2021-20199
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-20199",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2021-20199",
    "summary": "Rootless containers run with Podman, receive all traffic with a source IP address of 127.0.0.1 (including from remote hosts). This impacts containerized applications that trust localhost (127.0.01) connections by default and do not require authentication. This issue affects Podman 1.8.0 onwards.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-20199",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2021-20199",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2021-20199",
        "GHSA-grh6-q6m2-rh72"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
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              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "2ced9094d4728dd09f60a177faa32339a8d0f721"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "5b2585f5e91ca148f068cefa647c23f8b1ade622"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
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                        "introduced": "1.8.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "3.0.0"
                      }
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                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
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              }
            }
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-20199.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:53:32.740009444Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1919050",
        "https://github.com/containers/podman/pull/9052",
        "https://github.com/rootless-containers/rootlesskit/pull/206",
        "https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/5138"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2021-20199",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 384409,
  "published_at": "2021-02-02T19:15:14+00:00"
}