Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate as low-privileged Quay user
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DeliveryCreate repository matching target's name
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ExploitSupply known target policy identifier
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ExecutionRetrieve cross-namespace auto-prune config
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ImpactUnauthorized disclosure of policy details
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Object-level authorization, IDOR prevention
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| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires an authenticated Quay account (PR:L), and two concrete, attacker-satisfiable preconditions stated in the description: the attacker must manage a repository whose name is identical to the target namespace's repository name, AND must already know the target auto-prune policy's unique identifier. The underlying defect is that the policy-details lookup by repository name plus policy identifier does not enforce namespace scoping. Limiting factors that reduce real-world risk: the need for a valid account, the name-collision requirement, the requirement to know a specific policy identifier (reflected as AC:H), and the fact that impact is limited to disclosure of auto-prune configuration details (C:L) with no modification or denial of service. This is primarily relevant to multi-tenant Quay deployments where untrusted users share a registry. |
| Impact | This is a genuinely low-priority issue, and the signals are consistent rather than conflicting. The CVSS 3.1 base score is 3.1 (Low) and the vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N tells a coherent story: network-reachable (it is a registry API), but high attack complexity, requiring an already-authenticated, low-privileged account, with only limited confidentiality impact and no integrity or availability impact. No EPSS score was provided, there is no CISA KEV listing, and no public proof-of-concept was supplied - so exploitation status is 'no public exploit identified at time of analysis.' The high attack complexity (AC:H) is well justified by the description: the attacker must both control a repository whose name collides with the target's repository name AND already know the target policy's unique identifier, which is a non-trivial pair of preconditions that cannot simply be brute-forced at will. No SSVC decision data was provided. Net assessment: this is a high-CVSS-correlated-is-actually-low real-risk authorization/IDOR flaw whose impact is confined to disclosure of auto-prune policy configuration metadata, not credentials, images, or code. It is a legitimate defense-in-depth fix for multi-tenant Quay deployments but does not warrant emergency prioritization. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An authenticated low-privileged Quay user who happens to operate a repository whose name matches a victim namespace's repository, and who has learned the unique identifier of a target auto-prune policy, queries the policy-details endpoint and receives the victim namespace's auto-prune configuration back due to missing namespace scoping. No public exploit code is known, and the AV:N/AC:H profile means exploitation is remote but requires the attacker to satisfy the name-collision and known-identifier preconditions first. The disclosed data is configuration metadata (prune rules), not image content or secrets. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 12, 2026
Authenticated users of Red Hat Quay 3 can retrieve auto-prune policy configurations belonging to repositories in other namespaces, exposing configuration details that should remain tenant-scoped. Exploitation requires a valid Quay account, control of a repository whose name collides with the target's repository name, and prior knowledge of the target policy's unique identifier - conditions reflected in the CVSS 3.1 base score of 3.1 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N). Impact is confined to information disclosure, with no modification of data or denial of service, and no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis; Red Hat's CVE page and Bugzilla entry should be monitored for a fixed Quay 3 build, and that exact version should be applied as soon as it is published. Until then, the most effective compensating control is to avoid placing mutually untrusted tenants on the same Quay instance or, where that is unavoidable, to restrict repository-creation rights so untrusted users cannot manufacture a repository name that collides with a target namespace's repository name (trade-off: reduces self-service onboarding and administrative flexibility). Additional measures include treating auto-prune policy UUIDs as sensitive identifiers, monitoring Quay API and audit logs for cross-namespace policy-lookup requests from unexpected accounts, and applying network or RBAC segmentation so untrusted tenants cannot enumerate other namespaces (trade-off: added operational overhead and reduced visibility for legitimate automation). None of these controls remove the underlying authorization flaw, so patching remains the definitive fix once available.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The defect is an authorization bypass through user-controlled key (CWE-639), commonly known as an IDOR: the API path that resolves an auto-prune policy by repository name plus policy identifier does not verify that the caller's namespace owns that policy. Red Hat Quay is a container image registry that isolates tenants by organization and namespace, so policy objects retrieved by name/ID must be re-scoped to the requesting namespace before returning data. Because the lookup trusts the attacker-supplied repository name and policy identifier, a tenant that happens to own a repository with the same name as one in a victim namespace can obtain the victim's auto-prune configuration. The CPE data identifies the affected package as red_hat_quay_3, and the CVSS vector's PR:L confirms the attacker must be authenticated, while AC:H reflects the name-collision and policy-ID knowledge preconditions; confidentiality impact remains low since only auto-prune settings, not image content or credentials, are disclosed.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Remote API (AV:N) but requires a name-collision plus known policy identifier (AC:H) and an authenticated account (PR:L); only limited config metadata is disclosed, hence C:L, I:N, A:N.
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CVSS VectorVendor: redhat
DescriptionCVE.org
A flaw was found in Quay. An authenticated attacker can access repository auto-prune configurations from other namespaces, leading to unauthorized information disclosure. This issue occurs because the application does not properly enforce namespace scoping when retrieving policy details by repository name and policy identifier. To exploit the vulnerability, the attacker must manage a repository sharing the target's name and know the target policy's unique identifier.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org
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