GO-2026-6527 zot: Bearer authentication maps DELETE to push scope, allowing unauthorized deletion in zotregistry.dev/zot

zot: Bearer authentication maps DELETE to push scope, allowing unauthorized deletion in zotregistry.dev/zot...

zot: Bearer authentication maps DELETE to push scope, allowing unauthorized deletion

Summary A bearer token with only pull and push scopes can successfully delete manifests and blobs from a zot registry. The bearer authentication handler maps all non-GET/HEAD HTTP methods, including DELETE, to the "push" action, and the DistSpecAuthzHandler middleware is bypassed entirely for...

EUVD-2026-83187

zot is a container image and artifact registry based on the Open Container Initiative Distribution Specification. Prior to 2.1.18, the bearer authentication handler in pkg/api/authn.go maps every HTTP method other than GET and HEAD to the push action, so DELETE requests are not checked for the...