CVE-2021-21285 (GCVE-0-2021-21285)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-02-02 17:55 – Updated: 2024-08-03 18:09
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Title
Docker daemon crash during image pull of malicious image
Summary
In Docker before versions 9.03.15, 20.10.3 there is a vulnerability in which pulling an intentionally malformed Docker image manifest crashes the dockerd daemon. Versions 20.10.3 and 19.03.15 contain patches that prevent the daemon from crashing.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7771 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
moby moby Affected: < 19.03.15
Affected: >= 20.0.0, < 20.10.3
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