CVE-2026-33540CWE-918

Distribution affected by pull-through cache credential exfiltration via www-authenticate bearer realm

High · published April 6, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
31.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Distribution is a toolkit to pack, ship, store, and deliver container content. Prior to 3.1.0, in pull-through cache mode, distribution discovers token auth endpoints by parsing WWW-Authenticate challenges returned by the configured upstream registry. The realm URL from a bearer challenge is used without validating that it matches the upstream registry host. As a result, an attacker-controlled upstream (or an attacker with MitM position to the upstream) can cause distribution to send the configured upstream credentials via basic auth to an attacker-controlled realm URL. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.1.0.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00390 · 31.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-918 · Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
Published
2026-04-06T14:55Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 APR 14:55Z
    Distribution affected by pull-through cache credential exfiltration via www-authenticate bearer realm
    cvelistv5