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Description

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-03-20 | Published 2026-04-06 | Updated 2026-04-06 | Assigner GitHub_M




HIGH: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Problem types

CWE-918: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Product status

< 3.1.0
affected

References

github.com/...bution/security/advisories/GHSA-3p65-76g6-3w7r exploit

github.com/...bution/security/advisories/GHSA-3p65-76g6-3w7r

cve.org (CVE-2026-33540)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-33540)

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