Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate to Docker Hub with controlled PAT
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ExploitReassign unchanged PAT to victim via account-to-org conversion
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ExecutionToken authenticates to registry as recipient
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ImpactPull, push, or delete images in victim and organization repositories
Vulnerability Assessment
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| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires an authenticated Docker Hub account and control of a personal access token, plus use of the specific account-to-organization conversion feature that reassigns the token to another user without rotating or revoking its secret (PR:L); impact is further bounded by the token's existing scopes and by which repositories the recipient user can access. It is not remote-unauthenticated: the attacker must already hold a valid Docker Hub credential and a PAT, and the abuse is constrained to the registry operations (pull/push/delete) permitted by that token. Because the flaw is in Docker Hub's hosted service, it affects the default Docker Hub configuration rather than a customer-tunable setting. |
| Impact | This is a genuine high-priority access-control flaw rather than an inflated high-CVSS issue. The vendor-assigned CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N, score 9.4) shows network-exploitable, low-complexity abuse requiring only a low-privilege authenticated Docker Hub account, with high confidentiality/integrity/availability impact on both the vulnerable system and subsequent systems (SC:H/SI:H/SA:H) - the subsequent-system impact is well justified because a token reassigned to a victim grants cross-account/organization registry access (image pull, push, and delete). The weakness class (CWE-266, Incorrect Privilege Assignment) is consistent with the description: a personal access token was reassigned to another user without rotating or revoking the secret, so the attacker retained a working credential that now authenticated AS the recipient. Signals are incomplete and should be stated plainly: no EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no confirmed public exploit were provided in the input, so there is no evidence of active or at-scale exploitation. The 'ghostpat.com' reference appears to be a researcher write-up, not verified exploit code, so POC availability is unconfirmed. Because this is a server-side SaaS flaw in Docker Hub, remediation is vendor-controlled and the fix is not customer-deployable; the practical residual risk is any tokens that may have been mis-assigned before Docker's fix, which warrants token audit/rotation rather than patch deployment. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An authenticated Docker Hub user who controls a personal access token uses the account-to-organization conversion feature to reassign that unchanged token to another user, and because the secret is never rotated or revoked, the attacker keeps using it to authenticate to the registry as the victim. Operating within the token's scopes, the attacker can then pull, push, or delete images in repositories the victim can reach, including organization repositories. No confirmed public exploit was provided in the input; the referenced 'ghostpat.com' page appears to be a write-up rather than verified exploit code. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 13, 2026
Incorrect privilege assignment in Docker Hub's account-to-organization conversion feature lets an authenticated user bind a personal access token they control to a different Docker Hub account without the token secret ever being rotated or revoked. The unchanged PAT then continues to authenticate successfully - now as the recipient user - granting pull, push, and delete operations, within its existing scopes, across every repository that user can access, including organization repositories. Docker rates this 9.4 under CVSS 4.0 and our independent assessment characterizes it as CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H, but exploitation is not unauthenticated: the attacker must already hold a valid Docker Hub account and a PAT, and the damage is bounded by that token's scopes; no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis.
RemediationAI
Docker Hub is a hosted service, so the primary fix must be applied server-side by Docker; consult the vendor advisory at https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-hub-security-advisory-cve-2026-105445/ for its remediation statement, since no specific patched version is provided in the available data. Until that advisory is confirmed as fully resolved for your tenants, treat every personal access token that has been through (or was associated with) an account-to-organization conversion as potentially bound to the wrong principal: rotate or revoke those tokens immediately from Docker Hub account settings and reissue fresh, narrowly scoped tokens, accepting the operational cost of updating CI/CD secrets, registry credentials in cluster image-pull secrets, and any automation that references them. Reduce token blast radius by scoping replacement PATs to read-only where push is unnecessary, setting short expiry windows, and preferring organization access tokens or per-repository robot accounts over personal tokens - the trade-off being more credential objects to manage and more frequent rotation overhead. Audit Docker Hub organization membership, repository collaborator lists, and registry access logs for unexpected pushes, pulls, or deletes around the time of any conversion, and remove or downgrade any account that should not have repository access; note that log retention limits on some plans may mean historical evidence is already gone, so enable and export audit logging now. Docker's own conversion documentation at https://docs.docker.com/accounts/organization/setup/convert-account/ should be reviewed before performing further conversions while the fix status is unconfirmed.
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Docker Hub is a hosted container registry whose authentication layer accepts personal access tokens (PATs) as long-lived bearer credentials scoped to a user account. The account-to-organization conversion workflow documented by Docker (https://docs.docker.com/accounts/organization/setup/convert-account/) migrates an account and its resources into an organization, and in doing so reassigns associated PAT records to the organization's user context. CWE-266 (Incorrect Privilege Assignment) describes the root cause precisely: the conversion routine transferred token ownership metadata without treating that transfer as a credential-changing event, so the token secret was neither rotated nor revoked and the token's identity binding silently shifted to another principal. The CVSS 4.0 vector's scope-change signal (and the S:C in our independent vector) reflects that the credential crosses a security boundary - it authenticates as a user who never issued it - while PR:L (per the independent assessment) confirms the attacker needs a pre-existing authenticated Docker Hub account and a controlled PAT. CPE coverage (cpe:2.3:a:docker:docker_hub:* with a wildcard version) is consistent with a multi-tenant, continuously deployed SaaS service rather than a versioned on-premises artifact, meaning the exposure applies to the default Docker Hub configuration and is not something a customer can tune away.
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
Authenticated low-privilege Docker Hub user exploits remotely without victim interaction (PR:L, UI:N); reassigned token grants access to other users'/orgs' repos, a scope change (S:C), enabling image read, write, and deletion (C/I/A:H).
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CVSS VectorVendor: Docker
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2DescriptionCVE.org
An Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in Docker Hub's account-to-organization conversion feature allowed an authenticated attacker to reassign a personal access token (PAT) they controlled to another Docker Hub user without rotating or revoking the token secret. The unchanged PAT then authenticated to the registry as the recipient and could pull, push, or delete images, within its scopes, in repositories accessible to that user, including organization repositories.
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Executive ViewAI
Docker Hub's account-to-organization conversion feature contains a critical privilege assignment flaw that allows an authenticated attacker with a personal access token (PAT) to bind that token to another Docker Hub account, thereby gaining that user's repository permissions-including pull, push, and delete-across all organization repositories. This poses a severe risk to container image integrity and supply chain security, potentially enabling malicious tampering or deletion of critical images used in development and production. No public exploit identified at time of analysis and no vendor-released patch is available, so leadership should prioritize immediate mitigation.
Enforce least privilege on PATs (read-only where possible), rotate all PATs immediately, monitor Docker Hub audit logs for unauthorized token binding and repository changes, disable account-to-organization conversion if not needed, restrict conversion permissions to trusted admins, and enforce MFA for all Docker Hub accounts.
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