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GHSA-qh36-44jv-c8xj

GitHub Security Advisory

Potential proxy IP restriction bypass in Kubernetes

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Advisory Details

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. All versions of Kubernetes are impacted, and there is no fix in place.

Affected Packages

Go k8s.io/kubernetes
Affected versions: 1.21.0 (last affected: 1.21.1)
Go k8s.io/kubernetes
Affected versions: 1.20.0 (last affected: 1.20.7)
Go k8s.io/kubernetes
Affected versions: 1.19.0 (last affected: 1.19.11)
Go k8s.io/kubernetes
Affected versions: 0 (last affected: 1.18.19)

Related CVEs

Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-qh36-44jv-c8xj
Published
February 2, 2022 12:01 AM
Last Modified
August 6, 2024 11:53 PM
CVSS Score
2.5 /10
Primary Ecosystem
Go
Primary Package
k8s.io/kubernetes
GitHub Reviewed
✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: September 15, 2025 6:32 AM

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