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HIGH

Cache poisoning via unvalidated image layer DiffIDs

Published Oct 5, 2026

Description

A malicious image can advertise DiffIDs from another image while containing different layer contents. In affected versions, BuildKit could use the advertised DiffIDs to derive cache and snapshot identity without validating that they matched the actual layer contents.

If a BuildKit daemon with shared or persistent cache first processes such a malicious image, a later build using the victim image may mount the attacker-controlled layer contents as the base image. This can allow code from the malicious image to run in the victim build, for example by replacing a commonly executed path such as /bin/sh. The attacker-controlled code may read build secrets mounted into the build, access other build resources, alter output artifacts, or hang the build.

The issue affects both regular snapshotters and lazy-pulling snapshotters such as stargz.

Affected products

Remediation

Vendor solution

Do not share BuildKit daemon cache between trusted and untrusted builds. Use isolated BuildKit daemons or ephemeral builders for untrusted image sources, or prune BuildKit cache after processing untrusted images.

Disabling stargz alone is not sufficient because regular snapshotters are also affected.

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Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED
Assigner Docker
Published Oct 5, 2026
Updated Oct 5, 2026
Reserved Sep 17, 2026

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated Oct 5, 2026

NVD

Status Awaiting Analysis
Modified Oct 6, 2026

Red Hat

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ENISA EUVD

Assigner Docker
Published Oct 5, 2026
Updated Oct 5, 2026

GitHub

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