CVE-2026-95838

Severity not reported

Data quality: awaiting analysis. NVD has not completed analysis, so CVSS and affected-product data may be missing or change.

containerd is an open-source container runtime.

containerd is an open-source container runtime. Prior to 1.7.35, 2.0.12, 2.2.8, and 2.3.5, containerd's layer unpack handler repeatedly traverses directories for certain opaque whiteout configurations. A malicious image layer can trigger repeated directory traversals while opaque whiteouts are processed. Pulling or importing the image can consume CPU, delay container startup, and reduce image-pull concurrency for unrelated deployments. This issue is fixed in versions 1.7.35, 2.0.12, 2.2.8, and 2.3.5.

CVSS

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Awaiting analysis by NVD

Timeline (UTC)

Published: 2026-10-12 20:17

Modified: 2026-10-16 16:00

NVD status: Awaiting Analysis

Last synced 1 day ago

Verified against the source API 2026-10-27 06:58 UTC

Exploitation

Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)

Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

Not reported by the source (unknown — not "none").

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 CWE-407

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.

References

https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/e6ca378dcfa610d06589a3ac96aa992de866e4f0 security-advisories@github.com
https://github.com/containerd/containerd/security/advisories/GHSA-rp3h-jf77-q9p4 security-advisories@github.com

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-27 06:58 UTC · record ↗

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