Description
As mitigations to a report from 2019 and CVE-2020-8555, Kubernetes attempts to prevent proxied connections from accessing link-local or localhost networks when making user-driven connections to Services, Pods, Nodes, or StorageClass service providers. As part of this mitigation Kubernetes does a DNS name resolution check and validates that response IPs are not in the link-local (169.254.0.0/16) or localhost (127.0.0.0/8) range. Kubernetes then performs a second DNS resolution without validation for the actual connection. If a non-standard DNS server returns different non-cached responses, a user may be able to bypass the proxy IP restriction and access private networks on the control plane.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes | Kubernetes | — | — |
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 14 | kubernetes | 1.20.5+really1.20.2-1 | — |
| Debian 13 | kubernetes | 1.20.5+really1.20.2-1 | — |
| Debian 12 | kubernetes | 1.20.5+really1.20.2-1 | — |
openSUSE
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| openSUSE Tumbleweed | govulncheck-vulndb | 0.0.20250807T150727-1.1 | openSUSE-SU-2025:15424-1 |
Azure Linux
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Azure Linux 3 | kubernetes | No fix yet | — |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Go | k8s.io/kubernetes | >= 1.21.0, <= 1.21.1 | — | GHSA-qh36-44jv-c8xj |
| Go | k8s.io/kubernetes | >= 1.20.0, <= 1.20.7 | — | GHSA-qh36-44jv-c8xj |
| Go | k8s.io/kubernetes | >= 1.19.0, <= 1.19.11 | — | GHSA-qh36-44jv-c8xj |
| Go | k8s.io/kubernetes | <= 1.18.19 | — | GHSA-qh36-44jv-c8xj |
Advisories 2
- openSUSE-SU-2025:15424-1 govulncheck-vulndb-0.0.20250807T150727-1.1 on GA media SUSE / openSUSE Security Updates · Mar 23, 2026
- WID-SEC-2024-1488 IBM InfoSphere Information Server: Mehrere Schwachstellen BSI CERT-Bund (WID) · Jun 30, 2024