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[GHSA] GHSA-72x6-4j93-7w86 (low) — BuildKit has a possible runtime DoS via unbounded group parsing

medgithub_advisoriesPublished 2026-08-19

GHSA-72x6-4j93-7w86 Severity: low CVE: CVE-2026-61712

BuildKit has a possible runtime DoS via unbounded group parsing

### Impact Maliciously crafted base image or build can cause a Denial of Service (DoS) condition. When creating a container from this image, memory exhaustion occurs, leading to an Out Of Memory (OOM) kill of the buildkitd process.

### Patches Issue is fixed in BuildKit v0.31.1+

Indicators of compromise

CVE-2026-61712cve

Original source: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-72x6-4j93-7w86