Medium severity · published Jun 18, 2026
CVE-2026-12039
Docker Sandboxes network egress allowlist bypass via unfiltered DNS resolution
5.7
CVSS
0.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Docker Sandboxes (sbx) enforces an HTTP/S-only egress allowlist but does not apply it to DNS resolution: the per-network embedded DNS server forwards any queried name to the host resolver whenever the network is internet-connected, without consulting the policy. A workload inside a sandbox, which the threat model treats as untrusted, can therefore encode data into DNS labels for an attacker-controlled domain and exfiltrate it through a DNS covert channel, bypassing the configured allowlist.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.1% · higher than 1% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DS
Docker Sandboxes · Docker
0.13.0 before 0.33.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-12039
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-12039
docs.docker.com
https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/
github.com
https://github.com/docker/sbx-releases/releases/tag/v0.33.0
More from Docker Sandboxes
9.4
CVE-2026-77179
Docker Sandboxes guest can write arbitrary macOS host files via a symlink in the virtio-fs stored-path fallback
8.7
CVE-2026-79994
Docker Sandboxes UDS forwarder can reach arbitrary host Unix sockets through a symlink race
7.1
CVE-2026-17106
Tar extraction in moby/go-archive can write outside the destination directory via link following
6.7
CVE-2026-105570
Docker Sandboxes OAuth response masking could be bypassed with a case-variant token host
5.9
CVE-2026-105452
Docker Sandboxes egress proxy could forward unrecognized client credentials to managed hosts
