CVE-2021-41190
Clarify Content-Type handling in OCI spec
02 Description
Clarify Content-Type handling in OCI spec
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.22% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 82.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.0 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2021-11-17 19:20Z4 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 03:08Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-09-15
- Assigning CNA
- GitHub_M
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Low (CVSS 3.0)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-843Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- ea0570781cfff296d2e3754dfe25619a863dcbcea882701aaa95547a6dbdfc77
05 Affected products
06 References
- github.comhttps://github.com/opencontainers/distribution-spec/security/advisories/GHSA-mc8v-mgrf-8f4m
- github.comhttps://github.com/opencontainers/distribution-spec/commit/ac28cac0557bcd3084714ab09f9f2356fe504923
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20211119 CVE-2021-41190 OCI distribution and image spec: "content-type" confusionhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/11/19/10
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2021-d250fc2622https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A2RRFNTMFYKOTRKD37F5ANMCIO3GGJML/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2021-6dc68dbe4dhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DX63GRWFEI5RVMYV6XLMCG4OHPWZML27/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2021-79ba5abef6https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SQBCYJUIM5GVCMFUPRWKRZNXMMI5EFA4/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2021-eb2742b148https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T4OJ764CKKCWCVONHD4YXTGR7HZ7LRUV/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2021-3dda301691https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3TUZNDAH2B26VPBK342UC3BHZNLBUXGX/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2021-aacef7fa15https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RZTO6N55WHKHIZI4IMLY2QFBPMVTAERM/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2021-62352983b4https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4334HT7AZPLWNYHW4ARU6JBUF3VZJPZN/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2021-6789ed60f2https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YIGVQWOA5XXCQXEOOKZX4CDAGLBDRPRX/
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- containerd Fixed in 1.5.8-1
- docker Fixed in 1:20.10.11-1
- podman Fixed in 3.4.4-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- containerd Fixed in 1.5.9-0ubuntu1~18.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- containerd Fixed in 1.5.9-0ubuntu1~20.04.4
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- containerd Fixed in 1.5.9-0ubuntu1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS
- containerd No fix yet
- docker.io No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS
- docker.io No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.