containerd up to 2.3.1 Image denial of service

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in containerd up to 1.7.32/2.0.9/2.1.8/2.2.4/2.3.1. It has been rated as problematic. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Image Handler. The manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2026-47262. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in containerd up to 1.7.32/2.0.9/2.1.8/2.2.4/2.3.1. This issue affects an unknown function of the component Image Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability.

The weakness was published by Jakub Ciolek. It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-47262. The attack may be initiated remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1499 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 321801 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-47262), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 1.7.33, 2.0.10, 2.1.9, 2.2.5 or 2.3.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (321801) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2026-2009). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

Affected

• Google Cloud Platform

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Type

• Virtualization Software

Name

• containerd

Version

• 1.7.0
• 1.7.1
• 1.7.2
• 1.7.3
• 1.7.4
• 1.7.5
• 1.7.6
• 1.7.7
• 1.7.8
• 1.7.9
• 1.7.10
• 1.7.11
• 1.7.12
• 1.7.13
• 1.7.14
• 1.7.15
• 1.7.16
• 1.7.17
• 1.7.18
• 1.7.19
• 1.7.20
• 1.7.21
• 1.7.22
• 1.7.23
• 1.7.24
• 1.7.25
• 1.7.26
• 1.7.27
• 1.7.28
• 1.7.29
• 1.7.30
• 1.7.31
• 1.7.32
• 2.0.0
• 2.0.1
• 2.0.2
• 2.0.3
• 2.0.4
• 2.0.5
• 2.0.6
• 2.0.7
• 2.0.8
• 2.0.9
• 2.1.0
• 2.1.1
• 2.1.2
• 2.1.3
• 2.1.4
• 2.1.5
• 2.1.6
• 2.1.7
• 2.1.8
• 2.2.0
• 2.2.1
• 2.2.2
• 2.2.3
• 2.2.4
• 2.3.0
• 2.3.1

Website

• Product: https://github.com/containerd/containerd/

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