CVE-2026-53493Medium· 6.9▾ Sunlitcontainerd is an open-source container runtime. Prior to versions 1.7.36, 2.0.13, 2.2.9, 2.3.6, and 2.4.1, a crafted OCI index graph can force very high CPU/memory usage during PullImage (before container start), causing long ContainerCr…
▾ Sunlit zone — Low / medium · no exploitation signal
impact 38 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 0
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Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization from CISA's ADP record at CVE.org: whether exploitation is observed, whether an attack can be automated, and how much of the system is at stake. The CVSS score shown above comes from the assigning CNA record, not NVD.
Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Sep 25.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via NVD
0.4%
Last analysed / modified upstream
containerd is an open-source container runtime. Prior to versions 1.7.36, 2.0.13, 2.2.9, 2.3.6, and 2.4.1, a crafted OCI index graph can force very high CPU/memory usage during PullImage (before container start), causing long ContainerCreating stalls and, at larger sizes, node/runtime instability. Versions 1.7.36, 2.0.13, 2.2.9, 2.3.6, and 2.4.1 fix the issue.
Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.
Affected packages:
github.com/containerd/containerd/v2 >= 2.0.0, < 2.0.13github.com/containerd/containerd <= 1.7.35github.com/containerd/containerd/v2 >= 2.1.0, < 2.2.9github.com/containerd/containerd/v2 >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.6github.com/containerd/containerd/v2 = 2.4.0Patched in:
github.com/containerd/containerd/v2 2.0.13github.com/containerd/containerd 1.7.36github.com/containerd/containerd/v2 2.2.9github.com/containerd/containerd/v2 2.3.6github.com/containerd/containerd/v2 2.4.1Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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