CVE-2021-41190

FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-41190 affects the OCI Distribution Specification (versions 1.0.0 and prior), including related Fedora and Linux Foundation products. This vulnerability arises from ambiguous interpretation of content during push/pull operations when the Content-Type header is missing or inconsistent, potentially leading to a client misinterpreting a document as either a manifest or an index. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (Medium), it has a low attack complexity and requires low privileges, but its impact is limited to low integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		<= 1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:linuxfoundation:open_container_initiative_distribution_specification::::::::
		<= 1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:linuxfoundation:open_container_initiative_image_format_specification::::::::
		34CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:::::::*
		35CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:::::::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

3.0LOW

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

1.3

Impact Score

1.4

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

2.08%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

79.6%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0209 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 21,957 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (28)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference

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gopatch availablevia ghsa

Product: github.com/opencontainers/distribution-specFixed in: 1.0.1

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHACS-3.70-RHEL-8Fixed in: advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-roxctl-rhel8:3.70.0-2

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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: OADP-1.0-RHEL-8Fixed in: oadp/oadp-registry-rhel8:1.0.1-3

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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: OADP-1.0-RHEL-8Fixed in: oadp/oadp-velero-plugin-rhel8:1.0.1-5

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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: container-tools:rhel8-8070020220929222448.39077419

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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers 1.7Fixed in: rhmtc/openshift-migration-controller-rhel8:v1.7.1-7

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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10Fixed in: cri-o-0:1.23.0-92.rhaos4.10.gitdaab4d1.el7

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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11Fixed in: openshift4/ose-docker-builder:v4.11.0-202208020235.p0.gb500d85.assembly.stream

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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHACS-3.70-RHEL-8Fixed in: advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-collector-rhel8:3.70.0-2

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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHACS-3.70-RHEL-8Fixed in: advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-docs-rhel8:3.70.0-2

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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHACS-3.70-RHEL-8Fixed in: advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-main-rhel8:3.70.0-9

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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHACS-3.70-RHEL-8Fixed in: advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-rhel8-operator:3.70.0-2

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