{"id":209611,"date":"2026-02-03T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/docker-fixes-critical-ask-gordon-ai-flaw-allowing-code-execution-via-image-metadata\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T14:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T19:00:10","slug":"docker-fixes-critical-ask-gordon-ai-flaw-allowing-code-execution-via-image-metadata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/docker-fixes-critical-ask-gordon-ai-flaw-allowing-code-execution-via-image-metadata\/","title":{"rendered":"Docker Fixes Critical Ask Gordon AI Flaw Allowing Code Execution via Image Metadata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/02\/docker-fixes-critical-ask-gordon-ai.html\">Docker Fixes Critical Ask Gordon AI Flaw Allowing Code Execution via Image Metadata<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/02\/docker-fixes-critical-ask-gordon-ai.html\">https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/02\/docker-fixes-critical-ask-gordon-ai.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-03 11:41:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"thehackernews.com\">thehackernews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"p-author\">\ue804<span class=\"author\">Ravie Lakshmanan<\/span>\ue802<span class=\"author\">Feb 03, 2026<\/span><\/span><span class=\"p-tags\">Artificial Intelligence \/ Vulnerability<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched security flaw impacting Ask Gordon, an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant built into Docker Desktop and the Docker Command-Line Interface (CLI), that could be exploited to execute code and exfiltrate sensitive data.<\/p>\n<p>The critical vulnerability has been codenamed <strong>DockerDash<\/strong> by cybersecurity company Noma Labs. It was addressed by Docker with the release of version 4.50.0 in November 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In DockerDash, a single malicious metadata label in a Docker image can be used to compromise your Docker environment through a simple three-stage attack: Gordon AI reads and interprets the malicious instruction, forwards it to the MCP [Model Context Protocol] Gateway, which then executes it through MCP tools,&#8221; Sasi Levi, security research lead at Noma, said in a report shared with The Hacker News.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every stage happens with zero validation, taking advantage of current agents and MCP Gateway architecture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Successful exploitation of the vulnerability could result in critical-impact remote code execution for cloud and CLI systems, or high-impact data exfiltration for desktop applications.<\/p>\n<p>The problem, Noma Security said, stems from the fact that the AI assistant treats unverified metadata as executable commands, allowing it to propagate through different layers sans any validation, allowing an attacker to sidestep security boundaries. The result is that a simple AI query opens the door for tool execution.<\/p>\n<p>With MCP acting as a connective tissue between a large language model (LLM) and the local environment, the issue is a failure of contextual trust. The problem has been characterized as a case of Meta-Context Injection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;MCP Gateway cannot distinguish between informational metadata (like a standard Docker LABEL) and a pre-authorized, runnable internal instruction,&#8221; Levi said. &#8220;By embedding malicious instructions in these metadata fields,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/02\/docker-fixes-critical-ask-gordon-ai.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Docker Fixes Critical Ask Gordon AI Flaw Allowing Code Execution via Image Metadata https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/02\/docker-fixes-critical-ask-gordon-ai.html Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjEjMkaXhS9INevCSOPI_fOpweXt3g4TvjWQWZiUuxYDziaTNIsIk5vg-FCGf2sVKw6xzckOoHmfEODI5gJR_PzcUDayWZTEit09jkkb5QVxZNWtTg8ULumP2aiJc0ae6Km_eKzQwaZzp1EFrVcDm7PND2VjtV7VH7PyA3r5qwlReoDAoH38LVHcX9qjH3G\/s1600\/gordon.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,20,24,35,18,17,27],"class_list":["post-209611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-cybersecurity","tag-hacker","tag-large-language-model","tag-llm","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209613,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209611\/revisions\/209613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}