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high 7.0

CVE-2026-115538 json

Docker Engine overlay-network encryption rules are not restored after a firewalld reload

published yesterday modified yesterday also EUVD-2026-122881 , GHSA-6jhp-7446-hf7f

Unreviewed: the maintainers' own advisory

Published by the maintainers on their GitHub repository moby/moby. GitHub has not reviewed it into the GitHub Advisory Database, so the affected packages and versions are the maintainers' word. Read the full advisory on GitHub.

cvss
7.0
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 23%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Moby's overlay network driver does not restore the iptables rules for encrypted overlay networks after firewalld deletes them. Unlike other Docker Engine networking components, the overlay driver does not handle firewalld reload or start signals over D-Bus. The missing rules cause outgoing VXLAN datagrams to bypass IPsec encryption and remove the protection against incoming cleartext VXLAN traffic. The condition is not logged by dockerd and persists until the encrypted network's last local endpoint is removed and another is added, or dockerd is restarted. Each further firewalld event repeats the condition.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/moby/moby/v2 v2.0.0-beta.29
  • Docker Docker Engine 29.9.3
  • Moby Moby v2.0.0-beta.29
  • docker Alpine 3.24 29.9.3-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2026-115538

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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Exploit prediction

0.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 23% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 7.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:L
CNA 4.0 7.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/moby/moby/v2
<=v2.0.0-beta.28
v2.0.0-beta.29

Affected products

  • Docker Docker Engine
  • Moby Moby

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-693 Protection Mechanism Failure
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References

Sources

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The maintainers of moby/moby published their own advisory on GitHub. Reviewed sources take precedence over it.