CVE-2026-61712 PUBLISHED

BuildKit: Possible runtime DoS via unbounded group parsing

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 10.07.2026 Published: 19.08.2026 Updated: 19.08.2026

BuildKit is a toolkit for converting source code to build artifacts in an efficient, expressive and repeatable manner. Prior to 0.31.1, BuildKit read attacker-controlled /etc/passwd and /etc/group files without an upper bound while resolving a username to a user identifier or group identifier in executor/oci/user.go and solver/llbsolver/ops/user_linux.go. A malicious base image or build could provide oversized files that exhausted memory during user resolution and caused out-of-memory termination of the buildkitd process. This issue is fixed in version 0.31.1.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 2.3

Product Status

Vendor moby
Product buildkit
Versions
  • Version < 0.31.1 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE