CVE-2026-33540 PUBLISHED

Distribution affected by pull-through cache credential exfiltration via www-authenticate bearer realm

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 20.03.2026 Published: 06.04.2026 Updated: 06.04.2026

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.

Metrics

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

Product Status

Vendor distribution
Product distribution
Versions
  • Version < 3.1.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

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