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Docker Sandboxes EUVDEUVD-2026-95157

| CVE-2026-101998 MEDIUM
Not Failing Securely ('Failing Open') (CWE-636)
2026-10-08 Docker GHSA-cc8x-7cv4-34m9
5.9
CVSS 4.0 · Vendor: Docker
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Gain code execution inside authorized sandbox
  2. Delivery
    Send requests through credential-masking proxy
  3. Exploit
    Trigger response read returning data with error
  4. Execution
    Handler fails open, forwards unmasked bytes
  5. Impact
    Recover host OAuth tokens / Anthropic API key

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A10:2025 - Mishandling of Exceptional Conditions
ASVS 5.0
V16 - Security Logging and Error Handling Fail-secure design
Exploitation Conditions

Requires an attacker to already have code running inside an authorized Docker Sandbox (PR:L) in a deployment that uses Docker Sandboxes credential injection to proxy host-managed OAuth tokens or a derived Anthropic API key. Exploitation specifically depends on triggering the edge condition where a proxied response-body read returns data together with an error, causing affected handlers to fail open (CWE-636) and forward unmasked credential bytes rather than redacting them; this error-plus-data condition is not guaranteed on every request (AT:P), which limits reliability. It does NOT work against sandboxes that do not inject host-managed credentials, and it is not remotely reachable by an unauthenticated external attacker - the attacker must be operating from within the sandbox trust boundary, which is the primary limiting factor on real-world risk.

Impact

This is a moderate-severity information-disclosure issue (vendor CVSS 4.0 base 5.9), and the available signals are internally consistent rather than conflicting. The CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N) indicates an attacker must already be running code inside an authorized Docker Sandbox (PR:L) and must catch a specific error-plus-data condition (AT:P - a non-guaranteed attack requirement), which keeps real-world exploitability below what a raw 'credential theft' headline would suggest. The impact is narrow but meaningful: confidentiality only (VC:H), exposing host-managed OAuth access/refresh tokens or a derived Anthropic API key, with no integrity or availability impact (VI:N/VA:N) and no declared scope change to a subsequent system (SC:N). There is NO EPSS score, NO CISA KEV listing, and NO public exploit in the provided data, so there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no evidence of active exploitation - this is a design/trust-boundary weakness (CWE-636, failing open) disclosed by the vendor rather than an urgently-exploited flaw. Net: a legitimate fix-it priority for anyone running Docker Sandboxes with credential injection, but not a drop-everything emergency, because exploitation presupposes attacker-controlled code already executing inside the sandbox trust boundary.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker who can run code inside an authorized Docker Sandbox (for example via a malicious or compromised AI agent/tool executing in that sandbox) issues requests through the credential-masking proxy and repeatedly triggers the condition where a response-body read returns data together with an error. Because affected handlers fail open and forward the unmasked bytes in that case, the sandboxed code recovers the host-managed OAuth access and refresh tokens or the derived Anthropic API key that were supposed to stay outside the sandbox. No public exploit code is identified in the provided data.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
Patch available 0.2% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Oct 08, 2026

Docker Sandboxes credential-injection proxies can fail open and expose host-managed credentials - OAuth access and refresh tokens and a derived Anthropic API key - to code already running inside an authorized sandbox, defeating the masking control that is meant to keep those secrets outside the sandbox boundary. Exploitation requires an attacker to already have code executing in a sandbox configured to proxy host-managed credentials (PR:L) and depends on an edge condition where a proxied response-body read returns data together with an error, causing affected handlers to forward unmasked bytes instead of redacting them; because that error-plus-data condition is not guaranteed on every request (AT:P), reliability is limited and sandboxes that do not use credential injection are not affected. The vendor CVSS 4.0 base score is 5.9 and our independent assessment is CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:N/C:H/I:N/A:N; no public exploit code or CISA KEV entry was identified at the time of analysis, and the primary limiting factor on real-world risk is that the attacker must operate from within the sandbox trust boundary.

RemediationAI

No vendor-released patch or fixed version was identified in the available intelligence for CVE-2026-101998, and the two references supplied point to Docker product documentation (https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/ and https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/configuration/credentials/#how-credential-injection-works) rather than to a security advisory with an upgrade target, so verify current Docker guidance before assuming a fix is or is not available. Until a fix is applied, the strongest compensating control is to stop injecting host-managed credentials into sandboxes that run untrusted or third-party code: disable credential injection for those workloads and supply short-lived, narrowly scoped tokens manually instead, accepting the operational cost of losing automatic OAuth token proxying and the derived Anthropic API key. Where credential injection must remain enabled, treat every sandbox authorized to execute untrusted code as potentially able to read those secrets, rotate the affected OAuth access and refresh tokens and the derived Anthropic API key after any suspected exposure, and tighten which users and workloads are permitted to launch credentialed sandboxes. Detection should not be relied on as a compensating control: the disclosure depends on an error-plus-data response edge case that does not occur on every request, making the exposure inconsistent and logging an unreliable indicator of exploitation.

Affected VersionsENISA

Docker Sandboxes 0.21.0 <0.47.0

Affected Packages

euvd docker_sandboxes fix: 0.47.0

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

The root cause is CWE-636, 'Not Failing Securely' (failing open), in the credential-masking path of Docker Sandboxes' protected proxy. Credential injection is designed as a compensating control: the host holds the real OAuth access and refresh tokens and the derived Anthropic API key, and the sandbox proxy is expected to substitute masked placeholders when forwarding proxied responses. The bug is that when a response-body read returns both data and an error, the affected handlers do not treat the partial failure as a reason to withhold or re-mask the payload, so raw credential bytes can be forwarded into the sandbox - an information-disclosure outcome reached through faulty error handling rather than an injection or authentication flaw. The CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N) and our independent 3.1 assessment (AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:N/C:H/I:N/A:N) both reflect an adjacent-scoped attack surface, low-privilege attacker code inside the sandbox, no user interaction, and confidentiality-only impact with no integrity or availability effect on the host. The affected component is tracked by CPE cpe:2.3:a:docker:docker_sandboxes:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, and the relevant behavior is documented in Docker's credential-injection material at https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/configuration/credentials/#how-credential-injection-works and the product overview at https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/.

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Severity by source

Vendor (Docker) PRIMARY 5.9 MEDIUM
CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
vuln.today AI 4.8 MEDIUM

Attacker needs code inside an authorized sandbox (PR:L) and must hit a non-deterministic error-plus-data condition (AC:H); impact is credential confidentiality only (C:H, I/A:N).

3.1 AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:N/C:H/I:N/A:N
4.0 AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (Docker).

CVSS VectorVendor: Docker

Attack Vector
Adjacent
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
Present
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Vulnerable system: Confidentiality
High
Vulnerable system: Integrity
None
Vulnerable system: Availability
None
Subsequent system: Confidentiality
None
Subsequent system: Integrity
None
Subsequent system: Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

1
Patch available
Oct 08, 2026 - 20:03 EUVD

DescriptionCVE.org

Docker Sandboxes could fail open while masking credentials in protected proxy responses. When a response-body read returned data together with an error, affected handlers could forward unmasked bytes. Code inside an authorized sandbox could use this to recover host-managed OAuth access and refresh tokens or a derived Anthropic API key intended to remain outside the sandbox.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 95% exploitable
Prevalence
Low
niche, newer Docker AI sandbox feature, limited production footprint
Data Quality
4 sources
Confidence: Medium

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.2%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Controlled
Automatable
No
Human Impact· derived
Medium
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

30
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +30
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.

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