CVE-2020-8554

Vulnerability details Upstream issue

CVE-2020-8554 describes a traffic interception risk in Kubernetes service handling. An actor with permissions to create or update Service resources can abuse spec.externalIPs or status.loadBalancer.ingress.ip to redirect traffic.

Scope

Clusters that allow untrusted tenants to create or update Service objects are affected.

Prevention

  • Restrict who can create or update Service resources.
  • Restrict or deny untrusted ExternalIPs usage through admission policy.
  • Audit and monitor changes to Service status updates, especially LoadBalancer ingress IP updates.

Fixed by KLTS


Last modified April 15, 2026 : docs: add CVE-2020-8554 patch pages (70e8f5ca)