CVE-2021-41190

LOW3.0EPSS 0.38%

Clarify Content-Type handling

Published: 11/18/2021Modified: 3/14/2026

Description

### Impact In the OCI Distribution Specification version 1.0.0 and prior, the Content-Type header alone was used to determine the type of document during push and pull operations. Documents that contain both “manifests” and “layers” fields could be interpreted as either a manifest or an index in the absence of an accompanying Content-Type header. If a Content-Type header changed between two pulls of the same digest, a client may interpret the resulting content differently. ### Patches The OCI Distribution Specification will be updated to require that a `mediaType` value present in a manifest or index match the Content-Type header used during the push and pull operations. ### Workarounds Clients pulling from a registry may distrust the Content-Type header and reject an ambiguous document that contains both “manifests” and “layers” fields or “manifests” and “config” fields. ### References https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/security/advisories/GHSA-77vh-xpmg-72qh ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Open an issue in https://github.com/opencontainers/distribution-spec/ * Email us at [email protected]

Affected packages (3)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1LOW3.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

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