FKIE_CVE-2026-33540

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-04-06 15:17 - Updated: 2026-06-17 10:37
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
Distribution is a toolkit to pack, ship, store, and deliver container content. Prior to 3.1.0, in pull-through cache mode, distribution discovers token auth endpoints by parsing WWW-Authenticate challenges returned by the configured upstream registry. The realm URL from a bearer challenge is used without validating that it matches the upstream registry host. As a result, an attacker-controlled upstream (or an attacker with MitM position to the upstream) can cause distribution to send the configured upstream credentials via basic auth to an attacker-controlled realm URL. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.1.0.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/distribution/distribution/security/advisories/GHSA-3p65-76g6-3w7rExploit, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://github.com/distribution/distribution/security/advisories/GHSA-3p65-76g6-3w7rExploit, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
distribution_project distribution *
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