CVE-2024-24557 MEDIUM

CVE-2024-24557: Moby classic builder cache poisoning

Vendor Moby
Product moby
Weakness CWE-346 · Origin validation
Published February 1, 2024
Last update May 15, 2025

CVSS base score

6.9/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality Low
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Moby is an open-source project created by Docker to enable software containerization. The classic builder cache system is prone to cache poisoning if the image is built FROM scratch. Also, changes to some instructions (most important being HEALTHCHECK and ONBUILD) would not cause a cache miss. An attacker with the knowledge of the Dockerfile someone is using could poison their cache by making them pull a specially crafted image that would be considered as a valid cache candidate for some build steps. 23.0+ users are only affected if they explicitly opted out of Buildkit (DOCKER_BUILDKIT=0 environment variable) or are using the /build API endpoint. All users on versions older than 23.0 could be impacted. Image build API endpoint (/build) and ImageBuild function from github.com/docker/docker/client is also affected as it the uses classic builder by default. Patches are included in 24.0.9 and 25.0.2 releases.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

February 1, 2024 CVE published
May 15, 2025 Record updated