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Fencer Intel
high 7.5

CVE-2017-11468 json

Docker Registry has Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

published 2017-07-20 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-h62f-wm92-2cmw , GO-2021-0072 , EUVD-2022-4077

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.2%
EPSS 3.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Docker Registry before 2.6.2 in Docker Distribution does not properly restrict the amount of content accepted from a user, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via the manifest endpoint.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/docker/distribution 2.7.0-rc.0, 2.7.0-rc.0+incompatible
  • docker-registry Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.6.2~ds1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-11468

  • docker-registry Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 2.3.0~ds1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-11468

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • docker-distribution RHEL 7 EXTRAS_OTHER 2.6.2-1.git48294d9.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:2603

  • docker-distribution SLE Module for Containers 12 2.6.2-13.6.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:0865-1

  • docker-distribution-registry openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.7.1-7.2
  • distribution-registry openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.8.1-1.1
  • docker-distribution Package Hub 15 SP2 2.7.1-bp152.4.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10723-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12135-1openSUSE-SU-2020:1433-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-11468 updated cvss 5.3

docker-distribution: Does not properly restrict the amount of content accepted from a user

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras docker-distribution 2.6.2-1.git48294d9.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:2603
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kubernetes
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/docker/distribution
<2.7.0-rc.0
<2.7.0-rc.0+incompatible
2.7.0-rc.0
2.7.0-rc.0+incompatible

Classification

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

References

Sources

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