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Edgeless Systems Contrast through 1.20.0 Credential Leak via Registry Suffix Matching

Priority LOW 27CWE-1289Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
High
Attack requirements
Present
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
Low · None · None
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

Contrast (Edgeless Systems) through 1.20.0 performs unanchored suffix matching when selecting per-registry configuration in the imagepuller. Config.registryFor strips a single trailing dot and then uses strings.HasSuffix(hostname, fqdn) without requiring a DNS label boundary, so a registry entry such as [registries."ghcr.io."] is also applied to any host whose name merely ends in that byte sequence, including attacker-registered domains such as evilghcr.io. When an image or layer is pulled from such a sibling domain, the imagepuller sends the configured Authorization header (basic auth, registry token, or identity token), trusts the configured custom CA bundle, follows the configured mirror, and honours insecure-skip-verify (disabling TLS verification) for that host. Image integrity is not affected, as image bytes remain pinned by digest in the policy and are validated after the pull. Configurations that use a leading dot (e.g., [registries.".example.registry"]) are unaffected.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00213 11th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
edgelesssyscontrastup to 1.20.0—No fix listedCNA
  • contrast Vendoredgelesssys Affected up to 1.20.0 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-100837
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-frqc-cxqj-qxmv

References

  • TI-2026-64974 Edgeless Systems Contrast through 1.20.0 Denial of Service via ciphertextContainer CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 5.3
  • TI-2026-64973 Contrast before 1.16.0 Remote Attestation Relay Attack CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.1
  • TI-2026-64976 Contrast before 1.19.1 CopyFile Policy Symlink Subversion CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.6
  • TI-2026-64971 Contrast before 1.23.1 Image Substitution via Policy Generation CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.6
  • TI-2026-71174 Contrast world-writable containerd config allows privilege escalation CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.5
  • TI-2025-43536 Contrast before 1.8.1 Information Disclosure via Logging CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.5
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Sources