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.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8562
• kubernetes/kubernetes#101493
• https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/-MFX60_wdOY
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220225-0002/