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medium 6.8

CVE-2026-93323 json

Oversized Dockerfile or .dockerignore can exhaust buildkitd memory

published last mo. modified last mo. also EUVD-2026-92545 , GHSA-mgqf-486f-49vp

Unreviewed: the maintainers' own advisory

Published by the maintainers on their GitHub repository moby/buildkit. 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
6.8
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.1%
EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 1%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The Dockerfile frontend loaded the Dockerfile and .dockerignore files of a build context into memory without a size limit. A build context containing an oversized file could make buildkitd allocate memory proportional to that file, potentially exhausting memory and terminating the daemon, which interrupts other builds on the same instance. Fixed by rejecting such files above 16 MiB.

Patch / fix

  • mobyproject buildkit 0.33.1
  • moby-engine Azure Linux 3.0 25.0.18-1

azure linux advisories AZL-106824

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2026-93323 updated cvss 5.5

github.com/moby/buildkit: BuildKit: Denial of Service via oversized build context files

  • Red Hat Quay 3 quay/quay-builder-rhel8, quay/quay-builder-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Hardened Images podman 6.1.3-1.hum1, buildah 1.45.1-1.hum1, trivy 0.74.0-0.4.hum1
    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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
last mo.

Exploit prediction

0.11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 1% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 6.8 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 6.8 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/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 products

  • moby BuildKit

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-789 Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

References

Sources

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

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.