CriticalCVE-2026-110697

    Quay: quay: sql like wildcard injection in robot listing leaks cross-tenant robot tokens (CVE-2026-110697)

    Published Last modified Sources: Red Hat, CVE.org, EUVD, BSI

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    What is affected, what to do

    A flaw was found in Quay where the robot account listing function constructs a SQL LIKE pattern from user-controlled namespace names without escaping wildcard metacharacters. An attacker who creates a namespace containing an underscore character can match and retrieve robot accounts and their decrypted authentication tokens from other tenants' namespaces, leading to cross-tenant credential theft and unauthorized image operations.

    Update Quay to version 3.9.28, Quay to version 3.10.28, Quay to version 3.12.24.

    Affected
    • Quay lt *..3.9.28
    • Quay lt 3.10.0..3.10.28
    • Quay lt 3.12.0..3.12.24
    • Quay lt 3.14.0..3.14.10
    • Quay lt 3.15.0..3.15.9
    • Quay lt 3.16.0..3.16.7
    • Quay lt 3.17.0..3.17.7
    • Quay lt 3.18.0..3.18.3
    • Red Hat Quay 3.10 lt *..1793993674
    • Red Hat Quay 3.12 lt *..1793993854
    • Red Hat Quay 3.14 lt *..1793993848
    • Red Hat Quay 3.15 lt *..1793993771
    • Red Hat Quay 3.16 lt *..1793993799
    • Red Hat Quay 3.17 lt *..1793993778
    • Red Hat Quay 3.18 lt *..1793993890
    • Red Hat Quay 3.9 lt *..1793993730
    Fixed in
    • Quay 3.9.28
    • Quay 3.10.28
    • Quay 3.12.24
    • Quay 3.14.10
    • Quay 3.15.9
    • Quay 3.16.7
    • Quay 3.17.7
    • Quay 3.18.3
    • Red Hat Quay 3.10 1793993674
    • Red Hat Quay 3.12 1793993854
    • Red Hat Quay 3.14 1793993848
    • Red Hat Quay 3.15 1793993771
    • Red Hat Quay 3.16 1793993799
    • Red Hat Quay 3.17 1793993778
    • Red Hat Quay 3.18 1793993890
    • Red Hat Quay 3.9 1793993730

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    Metrics

    9.9

    XIEM Effective CVSS

    Highest available CVSS rating from NVD and vendor data.

    Source: NVD, CVSS v3

    9.9

    CVSS v3

    Severity Critical on the scale from 0 to 10.

    Source: Red Hat, CVE.org, EUVD, BSI

    0.7 %

    EPSS score

    Low — model estimates < 1% exploitation likelihood.

    Source: FIRST EPSS, percentile 55.2

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    Severity
    Critical
    Priority (0–325)

    The priority score is a consolidated metric that condenses several individual signals into a single, action-guiding ranking: technical severity (CVSS), exploitation likelihood (EPSS), known-exploited status (KEV) and the context of the affected asset. The aim is to answer the only truly important question in vulnerability management: what first?

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    103.86 Methodology
    Exploit maturity

    An exploit is code or a technique that specifically uses a concrete vulnerability to force unintended behaviour — such as executing code or escalating privileges. It is the tool that turns a theoretical flaw into a practical attack.

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    no public PoC known
    XIEM Effective CVSS

    XIEM® is the tiered managed-security operating model from NEOSEC and a registered trademark of NEOSEC GmbH. It extends classic SIEM — the central collection, normalisation and correlation of security-relevant events — with endpoint forensics, network visibility and deception technology, and consolidates them into three building tiers: Sentry, Orchestrate and Command.

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    9.9 Methodology
    CVSS v3

    CVSS is the globally established, open standard for assessing the technical severity of a vulnerability on a scale from 0 to 10. It describes how easily a flaw can be exploited and what damage it can cause — but not how likely its actual exploitation is. CVSS and the complementary EPSS deliberately answer different questions.

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    9.9
    EPSS score

    The EPSS score is the absolute model output for an individual vulnerability: the estimated probability of real-world exploitation within the next 30 days, expressed as a value between 0 and 1 (i.e. 0 % to 100 %). A score of 0.42 means „the model estimates a 42 % chance of real-world exploitation within 30 days“.

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    0.7 %
    Low — model estimates < 1% exploitation likelihood.
    EPSS percentile

    The EPSS percentile is the relative position of a vulnerability within all EPSS-scored CVEs, expressed as a value between 0 and 1. A percentile of 0.90 means „this CVE has a higher EPSS score than 90 % of all other scored CVEs“. Unlike the EPSS score, it is not a probability — but a positioning within a ranking.

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    55.2
    High — this CVE ranks above the median of all CVEs scored today (rank ≥ 36%).
    KEV status

    The KEV catalogue is a list maintained by the US authority CISA of vulnerabilities for which active exploitation in the wild has been confirmed. It answers not the question „how severe?“ but „is it already being attacked?“ — thereby sharply prioritising patching.

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    Published
    CISA assessment (SSVC)
    Exploitation: none known · not automatable · Technical impact: total
    Source: CISA Vulnrichment, as of 12 November 2026
    CWE

    CWE is a catalogue of typical weakness types in software and hardware — such as flawed input validation, unsafe memory handling or poor authentication. Where a CVE names a concrete vulnerability in a concrete product, a CWE describes the underlying class of defect.

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    CWE-89

    Detection rules

    No NEOSEC detection rule is available for this vulnerability yet.

    Classification under NIS2 and CRA

    Rule-based classification from exploitation status and severity. It does not replace a case-by-case assessment.

    NIS2

    NIS2 is EU Directive (EU) 2022/2555 to raise the level of cybersecurity across the Union. It substantially broadens obligations compared with the first NIS directive: more sectors, mandatory risk management, staged reporting duties and personal accountability of senior management.

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    High technical severity: assess and remediate the vulnerability in vulnerability handling under Art. 21(2)(e) NIS2 and document the decision.
    CRA

    The CRA is EU Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 setting horizontal cybersecurity requirements for „products with digital elements“ — from industrial controllers and software to connected consumer devices. For the first time manufacturers must ensure security across the entire product lifecycle, handle vulnerabilities and provide security updates.

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    From 11.12.2027, Annex I Part II CRA requires manufacturers of affected products with digital elements to handle vulnerabilities without delay and provide security updates.
    ISO/IEC 27001

    ISO/IEC 27001 is the internationally leading standard for an information security management system (ISMS). It describes a risk-based, process-oriented framework to systematically plan, implement, review and improve information security.

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    Control A.8.8, management of technical vulnerabilities: assess relevance to your systems, plan remediation and keep evidence.

    Description

    A flaw was found in Quay where the robot account listing function constructs a SQL LIKE pattern from user-controlled namespace names without escaping wildcard metacharacters. An attacker who creates a namespace containing an underscore character can match and retrieve robot accounts and their decrypted authentication tokens from other tenants' namespaces, leading to cross-tenant credential theft and unauthorized image operations.

    Source: redhat_csaf, cvelistv5, ENISA EUVD, NVD (NIST), CVE.org (MITRE), BSI CSAF, BSI WID Portal

    Affected products

    The following versions are affected. Older releases of the same product line are also vulnerable unless stated otherwise.

    Affected products
    Affected versionsFixed in
    Project Quayquay
    • 3.18.0 – < 3.18.3
    • 3.16.0 – < 3.16.7
    • 3.14.0 – < 3.14.10
    • 3.12.0 – < 3.12.24
    • 3.10.0 – < 3.10.28
    • < 3.9.28
    • 3.17.0 – < 3.17.7
    • 3.15.0 – < 3.15.9
    • 3.18.3
    • 3.16.7
    • 3.14.10
    • 3.12.24
    • 3.10.28
    • 3.9.28
    • 3.17.7
    • 3.15.9
    Red Hatmirror registry for Red Hat OpenShift 2
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    • —
    Red HatRed Hat Quay 3.10
    • < 1793993674
    • 1793993674
    Red HatRed Hat Quay 3.12
    • < 1793993854
    • 1793993854
    Red HatRed Hat Quay 3.14
    • < 1793993848
    • 1793993848
    Red HatRed Hat Quay 3.15
    • < 1793993771
    • 1793993771
    Red HatRed Hat Quay 3.16
    • < 1793993799
    • 1793993799
    Red HatRed Hat Quay 3.17
    • < 1793993778
    • 1793993778
    Red HatRed Hat Quay 3.18
    • < 1793993890
    • 1793993890
    Red HatRed Hat Quay 3.9
    • < 1793993730
    • 1793993730
    Red HatRed Hat Quay 5
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    Vendors and products

    Weakness classes (CWE)

    • CWE-89Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

      Base

      The product constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended SQL command when it is sent to a downstream component. Without sufficient removal or quoting of SQL syntax in user-controllable inputs, the generated SQL query can cause those inputs to be interpreted as SQL instead of ordinary user data.

      Entry at MITRE CWE-89

    References & sources

    Changes to this CVE

    Who changed this CVE and when: NVD (analysis, affected products, CVSS), the CVE publisher (CNA) and additional providers such as CISA (ADP).

    1. Record modifiedRed Hat

      1 individual change: Affected versions (publisher)

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      Affected value modified. <a href="https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/blob/main/cves/2026/110xxx/CVE-2026-110697.json">CVE-2026-110697</a>

      Source identifier: secalert@redhat.com

    2. Record modifiedRed Hat

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      Affected value modified. <a href="https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/blob/main/cves/2026/110xxx/CVE-2026-110697.json">CVE-2026-110697</a>

      Source identifier: secalert@redhat.com

    3. Record modifiedRed Hat

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      Affected value modified. <a href="https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/blob/main/cves/2026/110xxx/CVE-2026-110697.json">CVE-2026-110697</a>
      Referenceadded
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      https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:99019
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      https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:99021
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      https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:99022
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      https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:99023
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      https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:99024
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      https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:99025
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      https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:99026
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      https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:99027

      Source identifier: secalert@redhat.com

    4. Record modifiedCISA ADP

      CISA assessment (SSVC): exploitation: none known, automatable: no

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      {"id":"CVE-2026-110697","role":"CISA Coordinator","options":[{"exploitation":"none"},{"automatable":"no"},{"technicalImpact":"total"}],"version":"2.0.3","timestamp":"2026-11-12T16:00:41.962595Z"}

      Source identifier: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

    5. Record modifiedRed Hat

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      https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7149592

      Source identifier: secalert@redhat.com

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    1. ReceivedRed Hat

      CVSS V3.1: AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

      Weakness type: CWE-89

      Description added or changed

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      Descriptionadded
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      A flaw was found in Quay where the robot account listing function constructs a SQL LIKE pattern from user-controlled namespace names without escaping wildcard metacharacters. An attacker who creates a namespace containing an underscore character can match and retrieve robot accounts and their decrypted authentication tokens from other tenants' namespaces, leading to cross-tenant credential theft and unauthorized image operations.
      CVSSadded
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      AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
      Weakness type (CWE)added
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      CWE-89
      Affected versions (publisher)added
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      New affected value received. <a href="https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/blob/main/cves/2026/110xxx/CVE-2026-110697.json">CVE-2026-110697</a>
      Referenceadded
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      https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-110697
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      https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2552237

      Source identifier: secalert@redhat.com

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