GHSA-PG57-6JWG-Q645 Containerd has image-pull DoS via crafted OCI index graph amplification

Impact A vulnerability exists in containerd's image pull handlers where a crafted OCI image index containing deeply nested or heavily fanned-out descriptor graphs can cause unbounded CPU and memory consumption. During the PullImage operation, the recursive traversal and processing of child...

CVE-2026-53493 Containerd has image-pull DoS via crafted OCI index graph amplification

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...