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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-8555: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jun 4, 2020
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Jun 18, 2026

Description

The Kubernetes kube-controller-manager in versions v1.0-1.14, versions prior to v1.15.12, v1.16.9, v1.17.5, and version v1.18.0 are vulnerable to a Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) that allows certain authorized users to leak up to 500 bytes of arbitrary information from unprotected endpoints within the master's host network (such as link-local or loopback services).

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-k3s
Title
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