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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.1

CVE-2026-41568 json

Moby: Race condition in docker cp allows creation of arbitrary empty files on the host via symlink swap

published 2026-05-18 5 mo ago modified 2026-09-10 59 d ago also EUVD-2026-36527 , GHSA-vp62-88p7-qqf5 , GO-2026-5668

cvss
6.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.1%
EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 1%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Moby is an open source container framework. In Docker Engine prior to version 29.5.1, Docker Daemon versions 28.5.2 and prior, and Moby Daemon prior to version 2.0.0-beta.14, a race condition during docker cp mount setup allows a malicious container to create empty files or directories at arbitrary absolute paths on the host filesystem. This issue has been patched in Docker Engine version 29.5.1 and Moby Daemon version 2.0.0-beta.14.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/moby/moby/v2 2.0.0-beta.14
  • mobyproject moby 2.0.0-beta.14
  • docker docker 29.5.1
  • docker.io Debian 13 26.1.5+dfsg1-9+deb13u1
  • docker.io Debian 14 28.5.2+dfsg4-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-41568

  • govulncheck-vulndb SLES for SAP applications 16.0, SLES 16.0 0.0.20260827T195228-160000.1.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:23625-1

  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.0.20260827T195228-160000.1.1
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21761-1openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

  • docker Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23 29.5.1-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2026-41568

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-41568 updated cvss 3.9

github.com/docker/docker: github.com/moby/moby: Moby: Denial of Service via race condition in docker cp mount setup

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    +34 more products
    Red Hat Machine Deletion Remediation Operator workload-availability/machine-deletion-remediation-rhel9-operator, workload-availability/machine-deletion-remediation-operator-bundle Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers rhmtc/openshift-migration-controller-rhel8, rhmtc/openshift-migration-log-reader-rhel8, rhmtc/openshift-migration-must-gather-rhel8 Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Virtualization mtv-candidate/mtv-must-gather-rhel8, migration-toolkit-virtualization/mtv-must-gather-rhel8, migration-toolkit-virtualization/mtv-must-gather-rhel9 Red Hat Multiarch Tuning Operator multiarch-tuning/multiarch-tuning-rhel9-operator, multiarch-tuning/multiarch-tuning-operator-bundle Red Hat Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes multicluster-engine/must-gather-rhel9, multicluster-engine/assisted-installer-rhel8, multicluster-engine/assisted-installer-rhel9, multicluster-engine/assisted-service-8-rhel8, multicluster-engine/assisted-service-9-rhel9, multicluster-engine/assisted-installer-agent-rhel8, +5 more Red Hat Multicluster Global Hub multicluster-globalhub/multicluster-globalhub-grafana-rhel9 Red Hat Node HealthCheck Operator workload-availability/node-healthcheck-must-gather-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift API for Data Protection oadp/oadp-mustgather-rhel9, oadp/oadp-velero-plugin-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel8, ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel9, ocp-tools-4/jenkins-agent-base-rhel8, ocp-tools-4/jenkins-agent-base-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed openshift-lightspeed/lightspeed-rhel9-operator Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines openshift-pipelines/pipelines-opc-rhel9, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-cli-tkn-rhel8, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-cli-tkn-rhel9, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-resolvers-rhel8, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-controller-rhel8, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-entrypoint-rhel8, +2 more Red Hat OpenShift Serverless openshift-serverless-1/kn-client-kn-rhel9, openshift-serverless-1/logic-rhel9-operator, openshift-serverless-1/kn-serving-controller-rhel9, openshift-serverless-1/kn-plugin-event-sender-rhel9, openshift-serverless-1/serverless-must-gather-rhel9, openshift-serverless-1/kn-plugin-func-func-util-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2 openshift-service-mesh/pilot-rhel8, openshift-service-mesh/proxyv2-rhel9, openshift-service-mesh/istio-cni-rhel8, openshift-service-mesh/istio-rhel8-operator, openshift-service-mesh/istio-must-gather-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3 openshift-service-mesh/istio-rhel9-operator, openshift-service-mesh/istio-must-gather-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Source-to-Image (S2I) source-to-image/source-to-image-rhel8, source-to-image/source-to-image-rhel9 Red Hat Pen Drive Powered by Red Hat Lightspeed pen-drive/pen-drive-scanner-rhel9 Red Hat Power monitoring for Red Hat OpenShift openshift-power-monitoring/power-monitoring-rhel9-operator Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 rhacm2/prometheus-rhel9, rhacm2/acm-grafana-rhel9, rhacm2/acm-must-gather-rhel9, rhacm2/rbac-query-proxy-rhel9, rhacm2/metrics-collector-rhel9, rhacm2/submariner-rhel9-operator, +5 more Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4 advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-scanner-rhel8, advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-scanner-slim-rhel8 Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 ansible-automation-platform-24/aap-must-gather-rhel8, ansible-automation-platform-25/aap-must-gather-rhel8, ansible-automation-platform-26/aap-must-gather-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform-27/aap-must-gather-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform/platform-operator-bundle, ansible-automation-platform-27/ansible-devspaces-rhel9, +1 more Red Hat Build of Kueue kueue/kueue-must-gather-rhel9 Red Hat Build of Podman Desktop - Tech Preview rhdesktop/rh-podman-desktop-ext-rhel-rhel10, rhdesktop/rh-podman-desktop-ext-bootc-rhel10 Red Hat Ceph Storage 5 rhceph/rhceph-5-dashboard-rhel8 Red Hat Ceph Storage 6 rhceph/rhceph-promtail-rhel9 Red Hat Ceph Storage 7 rhceph/grafana-rhel9, rhceph/rhceph-promtail-rhel9 Red Hat Ceph Storage 8 rhceph/grafana-rhel9, rhceph/rhceph-promtail-rhel9 Red Hat Ceph Storage 9 rhceph/alloy-rhel10, rhceph/grafana-rhel10 Red Hat Edge Manager 1 flightctl, rhem/flightctl-api-rhel9, rhem/flightctl-api-rhel10, rhem/flightctl-worker-rhel9, rhem/flightctl-worker-rhel10, rhem/flightctl-db-setup-rhel9, +19 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 conmon, podman, skopeo, buildah, podman-tests, skopeo-tests, +12 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 grafana, grafana-selinux, rhel9/bootc-image-builder, rhel9-eus/rhel-9.6-bootc-image-builder Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 podman, skopeo, buildah, grafana, rhel10/bootc-image-builder, rhel10-eus/rhel-10.0-bootc-image-builder Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/rhai-cli-rhel9, rhoai/odh-must-gather-rhel9, rhoai/odh-kserve-agent-rhel9, rhoai/odh-kserve-router-rhel9, rhoai/odh-model-registry-rhel9, rhoai/odh-kserve-controller-rhel9, +25 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 cri-tools, openshift4/ose-cli, openshift4/frr-rhel9, openshift4/ose-tests, openshift4/ose-console, openshift-kni/commatrix, +93 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 cri-tools, openshift5/frr-rhel9, openshift5/metallb-rhel9, openshift5/ose-cli-rhel9, openshift5/cnf-tests-rhel9, openshift5/ose-tests-rhel9, +34 more
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”

10 more affected, 1 more fixed, 2 more not affected in the full advisory

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
4 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 1% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H
GitHub 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/docker/docker
<=28.5.2
all versions
 no fix listed
go github.com/moby/moby/v2
<2.0.0-beta.14
2.0.0-beta.14
go github.com/moby/moby
<=28.5.2
all versions
 no fix listed

Affected products

  • moby moby

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-81 Improper Neutralization of Script in an Error Message Web Page
  • CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
  • CWE-61 UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

The maintainers of moby/moby published their own advisory on GitHub. Reviewed sources take precedence over it.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.