CVE-2026-33997Moby: Off-by-one error in plugin privilege validation
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 0.40%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 65% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Moby is an open source container framework. Prior to version 29.3.1, a security vulnerability has been detected that allows plugins privilege validation to be bypassed during docker plugin install. Due to an error in the daemon's privilege comparison logic, the daemon may incorrectly accept a privilege set that differs from the one approved by the user. Plugins that request exactly one privilege are also affected, because no comparison is performed at all. This issue has been patched in version 29.3.1.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 7 days later
· 7 days later
Published
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| redhat-SADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High8.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.40% · top 65% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/docker/dockerGHSA-pxq6-2prw-chj9 (opens in a new tab)
- Gogithub.com/moby/mobyGHSA-pxq6-2prw-chj9 (opens in a new tab)
- Gogithub.com/moby/moby/v2GHSA-pxq6-2prw-chj9 (opens in a new tab)
References
References8
- https://github.com/moby/moby/security/advisories/GHSA-pxq6-2prw-chj9 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/moby/moby/releases/tag/docker-v29.3.1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-33997 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHBZ#2453277 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-33997.json (opens in a new tab)x_sadp-csaf-vex
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22347 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:23345 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:21769 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-17290 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-pxq6-2prw-chj9 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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