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.
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | — | Upgrade to the latest version of Arch Linux | Jul 11, 2025 | Feb 1, 2022 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade kubernetes | Jul 30, 2024 | Feb 1, 2022 |
| Kubernetes | — | Upgrade Kubernetes to version 1.21.0Upgrade Kubernetes to version 1.19.11Upgrade Kubernetes to version 1.20.7Upgrade Kubernetes to version 1.18.19 | Mar 10, 2022 | Feb 1, 2022 |
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