GHSA-72x6-4j93-7w86Low

BuildKit has a possible runtime DoS via unbounded group parsing

Published
August 19, 2026
Last Modified
August 19, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Impact

Maliciously crafted base image or build can cause a Denial of Service (DoS) condition. When creating a container from this image, memory exhaustion occurs, leading to an Out Of Memory (OOM) kill of the buildkitd process.

Patches

Issue is fixed in BuildKit v0.31.1+

Workarounds

Use trusted build sources.

References

This is BuildKit variant of containerd advisory https://github.com/containerd/containerd/security/advisories/GHSA-jpcc-p29g-p8mq

🎯 Affected products1

  • go/github.com/moby/buildkit:<= 0.31.0

🔗 References (5)