Description
storage/pkg/archive.ApplyLayer and ApplyUncompressedLayer may, when processing corrupt or malicious inputs, leak a file descriptor; unbounded repeated calls can exhaust the process’ file descriptor limit
References2
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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3.3
LOW
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 1 · as of 8 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-772
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