GHSA-6wvf-f2vw-3425: github.com/containers/image (CVE-2024-3727)

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed in
github.com/containers/image	Go	<5.30.1	5.30.1
github.com/containers/image/v5	Go	>=5.30.0, <5.30.1 \|\| <5.29.3	5.30.1, 5.29.3

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

The Go library github.com/containers/image is vulnerable in versions before 5.30.1, and github.com/containers/image/v5 is vulnerable in versions before 5.29.3 and from 5.30.0 up to 5.30.1. An attacker can trigger unexpected authenticated registry accesses on behalf of a victim user, which can lead to resource exhaustion and local path traversal. The source gives few details on the exact conditions required. Upgrade to version 5.30.1 of github.com/containers/image, or to 5.29.3 or 5.30.1 of github.com/containers/image/v5.

Written 2 Nov 2026.

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
8.3	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.013, the 70th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

9 May 2024, 14:57 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List
14 May 2024, 15:42 UTC Confirmed by NVD
31 Oct 2026, 14:15 UTC First seen by agentprime
31 Oct 2026, 14:15 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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