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CVE-2020-8557 Moderate

Denial of service in Kubernetes in k8s.io/kubernetes

Denial of service in Kubernetes in k8s.io/kubernetes

Exploit probability 0.5%
Published June 10, 2024
Required by Not available
Last source change March 3, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

Unknown Unknown

147 explicit affected versions

Go k8s.io/kubernetes
Go k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities CVE-2020-8557

The Kubernetes kubelet component in versions 1.1-1.16.12, 1.17.0-1.17.8 and 1.18.0-1.18.5 do not account for disk usage by a pod which writes to its own /etc/hosts file. The /etc/hosts file mounted in a pod by kubelet is not included by the kubelet eviction manager when calculating ephemeral storage usage by a pod. If a pod writes a large amount of data to the /etc/hosts file, it could fill the storage space of the node and cause the node to fail.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities GHSA-55qj-gj3x-jq9r

The Kubernetes kubelet component in versions 1.1-1.16.12, 1.17.0-1.17.8 and 1.18.0-1.18.5 do not account for disk usage by a pod which writes to its own /etc/hosts file. The /etc/hosts file mounted in a pod by kubelet is not included by the kubelet eviction manager when calculating ephemeral storage usage by a pod. If a pod writes a large amount of data to the /etc/hosts file, it could fill the storage space of the node and cause the node to fail.

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05 / REFERENCES

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