chainguard-dev/malcontent · Security

malcontent OCI image pull credential exfiltration via malicious registry token realm

GHSA ID
GHSA-9m43-p3cx-w8j5
CVE ID
CVE-2026-24845
Severity
medium
Published
Updated
CVSS
6.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v3
6.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Description

Malcontent could be made to expose Docker registry credentials if it scanned a specially crafted OCI image reference. Malcontent uses google/go-containerregistry for OCI image pulls, which by default uses the Docker credential keychain. A malicious registry could return a WWW-Authenticate header redirecting token authentication to an attacker-controlled endpoint, causing credentials to be sent to that endpoint.

Fix: Default to anonymous auth for OCI pulls

Acknowledgements

Thank you to Oleh Konko from 1seal for discovering and reporting this issue.

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