CVE-2020-1702

CVE-2020-1702 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in container image pulling processes, affecting containers-image versions prior to 5.2.0, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift Container Platform. An unprivileged attacker can craft a malicious container image that, when pulled, consumes an unbounded amount of memory, crashing the pulling process. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 3.3, indicating low impact (denial of service) and requiring user interaction (UI:R) to trigger. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.