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CVE-2020-8557

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5 EPSS 0.50% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2020-07-23 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

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CVE
CVE-2020-8557
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.5
EPSS
0.50%
Kubernetes

Original NVD Description

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.