Red Hat Quay 3 storage/pkg/archive ApplyLayer/ApplyUncompressedLayer resource consumption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security, Ansible Automation Platform, Build of Podman Desktop, Certification Program for Enterprise Linux 9, Confidential Compute Attestation DPU kit for NVIDIA, Developer Hub, Enterprise Linux 10, Enterprise Linux 9, Exploit Intelligence, Hardened Images, Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes, NVIDIA JetPack 6 for RHEL, OpenShift AIOpenShift Container Platform, OpenShift Dev Spaces, OpenShift Lightspeed, OpenShift Source-to-Image, OpenStack Platform 18.0 and Quay 3 and classified as problematic. This affects the function ApplyLayer/ApplyUncompressedLayer of the file storage/pkg/archive. Performing a manipulation results in resource consumption. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-114236. The attack requires a local approach. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security, Ansible Automation Platform, Build of Podman Desktop, Certification Program for Enterprise Linux 9, Confidential Compute Attestation DPU kit for NVIDIA, Developer Hub, Enterprise Linux 10, Enterprise Linux 9, Exploit Intelligence, Hardened Images, Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes, NVIDIA JetPack 6 for RHEL, OpenShift AIOpenShift Container Platform, OpenShift Dev Spaces, OpenShift Lightspeed, OpenShift Source-to-Image, OpenStack Platform 18.0 and Quay 3. It has been classified as problematic. This affects the function ApplyLayer/ApplyUncompressedLayer of the file storage/pkg/archive. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

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

It is possible to read the advisory at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-114236 since 10/21/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/21/2026).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Class: Resource consumption
CWE: CWE-400 / CWE-404
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Local: Yes
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Timelineinfo

10/21/2026 Advisory disclosed
10/21/2026 +0 days CVE reserved
10/21/2026 +0 days VulDB entry created
10/21/2026 +0 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: redhat.com

Advisory: access.redhat.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2026-114236 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2026-114236
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-424707

Entryinfo

Created: 10/21/2026 10:37
Changes: 10/21/2026 10:37 (62)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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