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High · 7.0 CVE-2026-115538 EUVD-2026-122881

Docker Engine overlay-network encryption rules are not restored after a firewalld reload

Published Nov 10, 2026 · Assigned by Docker

Description

Moby's overlay network driver does not restore the iptables rules for encrypted overlay networks after firewalld deletes them. Unlike other Docker Engine networking components, the overlay driver does not handle firewalld reload or start signals over D-Bus. The missing rules cause outgoing VXLAN datagrams to bypass IPsec encryption and remove the protection against incoming cleartext VXLAN traffic. The condition is not logged by dockerd and persists until the encrypted network's last local endpoint is removed and another is added, or dockerd is restarted. Each further firewalld event repeats the condition.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Docker Docker Engine < 29.9.3 29.9.3
Moby Moby < v2.0.0-beta.29 v2.0.0-beta.29

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 docker.io +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS docker.io +1 No fix yet —
Show 5 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS docker.io +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS docker.io +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS docker.io +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS docker.io No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS docker.io No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 docker 29.9.3-r0 —

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 moby-engine No fix yet —

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