CVE-2026-35172: high-severity vulnerability in distribution
Distribution has stale blob access resurrection via repo-scoped redis descriptor cache invalidation
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 0.5%
Distribution is a toolkit to pack, ship, store, and deliver container content. Prior to 3.1.0, distribution can restore read access in repo a after an explicit delete when storage.cache.blobdescriptor: redis and storage.delete.enabled: true are both enabled. The delete path clears the shared digest descriptor but leaves stale repo-scoped membership behind, so a later Stat or Get from repo b repopulates the shared descriptor and makes the deleted blob readable from repo a again. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.1.0.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products
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References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:23234https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:25045https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26529https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26543https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:28893https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:37387https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-35172https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2455571https://github.com/distribution/distribution/security/advisories/GHSA-f2g3-hh2r-cwgchttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-35172.json