CVE-2026-92543Docker Engine insecure-registry fallback via malicious DNS responses
- 7.6HighCVSS base score
- 0.09%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 100% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Docker Engine classifies a registry hostname as insecure using an any-match DNS check. loadInsecureRegistries() injects 127.0.0.0/8 and ::1/128 as insecure CIDRs by default. isCIDRMatch resolves all of the hostname's addresses and returns true if a single address is in the insecure CIDR list. Because the transport re-dials the hostname rather than the CIDR-matching address, a DNS answer set of one loopback IP plus a non-loopback attacker IP disables certificate verification and enables HTTP fallback for the registry connection.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Docker
- 21 days later
· 21 days later
Published
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DockerCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | High7.6 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| NVDNVD · Awaiting Analysis | 4.0 | High7.6 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.09% · top 100% of all CVEs (13 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: High 7.6.
Affected products
- affected < 29.8.2
- affected < v2.0.0-beta.25
What to do
Workaround: If upgrading is not immediately possible, ensure that registry hostnames resolve only to trusted, non-loopback IP addresses. For example, administrators can use a trusted DNS configuration or a local hosts-file entry to pin the registry hostname to its expected address. Alternatively, restrict outbound network access from the Docker daemon so that registry connections can only reach trusted registry endpoints. Removing entries from the insecure-registries configuration is not sufficient, because Docker Engine automatically treats the 127.0.0.0/8 and ::1/128 ranges as insecure. Using a trusted CA certificate for the registry does not mitigate this issue if the registry hostname can also resolve to a loopback address, because the resulting registry configuration permits connections without certificate verification. As a defense in depth against image substitution, images can be referenced by digest rather than by a mutable tag. This does not prevent disclosure of registry credentials and should not be considered a complete workaround.
References
References1
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-2026-94484 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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