CVE-2026-19519
Description
A flaw was found in claircore's RPM package scanner. Crafted RPM header data in a container layer can cause an unchecked type assertion to panic the scanner. The panic is not recovered, causing the Clair indexer process to crash, leading to a denial of service.
Statement
Red Hat Quay Clair and RHACS Scanner V4 deployments run the indexer as multiple OpenShift pods (default replica count >= 2) with automatic kubelet restart on crash. An unrecovered panic in claircore RPM header parsing terminates one indexer pod; the remaining replicas and automatic pod restart limit the impact to a temporary interruption of image indexing rather than a lasting registry or scanning outage. Availability impact is therefore Low (A:L), consistent with the precedent claircore panic-DoS flaw CVE-2026-16254 (apk parser out-of-bounds slice), which received the same CVSS vector and score.
Mitigation
Where possible, configure the indexer to run scanner workloads in isolated processes or containers so that a single scanner panic cannot terminate the shared indexer. Alternatively, deploy multiple indexer replicas behind a load balancer to reduce the blast radius of a single-process crash.
Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details
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The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v3 Score Breakdown
| Red Hat | NVD | cve.org | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base Score | 4.3 | N/A | 4.3 |
| Attack Vector | Network | N/A | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low | N/A | Low |
| Privileges Required | Low | N/A | Low |
| User Interaction | None | N/A | None |
| Scope | Unchanged | N/A | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None | N/A | None |
| Integrity Impact | None | N/A | None |
| Availability Impact | Low | N/A | Low |
Vector
Red Hat: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
cve.org: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Understanding the Weakness (CWE)
Availability
Technical Impact: DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart
An attacker that can trigger an assert statement can still lead to a denial of service if the relevant code can be triggered by an attacker, and if the scope of the assert() extends beyond the attacker's own session.
Acknowledgements
Red Hat would like to thank Arpit Jain (GitHub handle: arpitjain099) for reporting this issue.
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