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CVE-2021-21285 Moderate

moby docker daemon crash during image pull of malicious image

### Impact Pulling an intentionally malformed Docker image manifest crashes the `dockerd` daemon. ### Patches Versions 20.10.3 and 19.03.15 contain patches that prevent the daemon from crashing. ### Credits Maintainers would like to thank Josh Larsen, Ian Coldwater, Duffie Cooley, Rory McCune for working on the vulnerability and Brad Geesaman for responsibly disclosing it to [email protected].

Exploit probability 3.3%
Published January 31, 2024
Required by Not available
Last source change July 8, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

Unknown Unknown

72 explicit affected versions

Go github.com/moby/moby

03 / CONNECTIONS

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04 / EVIDENCE

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Open Source Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-21285

In Docker before versions 9.03.15, 20.10.3 there is a vulnerability in which pulling an intentionally malformed Docker image manifest crashes the dockerd daemon. Versions 20.10.3 and 19.03.15 contain patches that prevent the daemon from crashing.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities GHSA-6fj5-m822-rqx8

### Impact Pulling an intentionally malformed Docker image manifest crashes the `dockerd` daemon. ### Patches Versions 20.10.3 and 19.03.15 contain patches that prevent the daemon from crashing. ### Credits Maintainers would like to thank Josh Larsen, Ian Coldwater, Duffie Cooley, Rory McCune for working on the vulnerability and Brad Geesaman for responsibly disclosing it to [email protected].

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05 / REFERENCES

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