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.
CWEs
- CWE-522 · Insufficiently Protected Credentials