diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/testcontainers/images/LocalImagesCache.java b/core/src/main/java/org/testcontainers/images/LocalImagesCache.java
index c98339e9f4c..9c601959e88 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/testcontainers/images/LocalImagesCache.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/testcontainers/images/LocalImagesCache.java
@@ -70,22 +70,37 @@ private synchronized boolean maybeInitCache(DockerClient dockerClient) {
         return true;
     }
 
-    private void populateFromList(List<Image> images) {
+    @VisibleForTesting
+    void populateFromList(List<Image> images) {
         for (Image image : images) {
             String[] repoTags = image.getRepoTags();
-            if (repoTags == null) {
-                log.debug("repoTags is null, skipping image: {}", image);
+            String[] repoDigests = image.getRepoDigests();
+
+            if (repoTags == null && repoDigests == null) {
+                log.debug("repoTags and repoDigests are both null, skipping image: {}", image);
                 continue;
             }
 
-            cache.putAll(
-                Stream
-                    .of(repoTags)
-                    // Protection against some edge case where local image repository tags end up with duplicates
-                    // making toMap crash at merge time.
-                    .distinct()
-                    .collect(Collectors.toMap(DockerImageName::new, it -> ImageData.from(image)))
-            );
+            // Images pulled by digest only (e.g. "postgres@sha256:...") have no repo tags,
+            // so they must be indexed by their repo digests to be found in the cache.
+            putAll(repoTags, image);
+            putAll(repoDigests, image);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void putAll(String[] names, Image image) {
+        if (names == null) {
+            return;
         }
+        cache.putAll(
+            Stream
+                .of(names)
+                // Dangling images are reported as "<none>:<none>" / "<none>@<none>"; they can't be looked up by name.
+                .filter(it -> !it.startsWith("<none>"))
+                // Protection against some edge case where local image repository tags end up with duplicates
+                // making toMap crash at merge time.
+                .distinct()
+                .collect(Collectors.toMap(DockerImageName::new, it -> ImageData.from(image)))
+        );
     }
 }
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/testcontainers/images/LocalImagesCacheTest.java b/core/src/test/java/org/testcontainers/images/LocalImagesCacheTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..42a1b1ebaef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/src/test/java/org/testcontainers/images/LocalImagesCacheTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+package org.testcontainers.images;
+
+import com.github.dockerjava.api.model.Image;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterEach;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.mockito.Mockito;
+import org.testcontainers.utility.DockerImageName;
+
+import java.util.Collections;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+class LocalImagesCacheTest {
+
+    private static final String DIGEST =
+        "postgres@sha256:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001";
+
+    @AfterEach
+    void tearDown() {
+        LocalImagesCacheAccessor.clearCache();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void shouldCacheImagePulledByDigestOnly() {
+        Image image = Mockito.mock(Image.class);
+        Mockito.when(image.getRepoTags()).thenReturn(null);
+        Mockito.when(image.getRepoDigests()).thenReturn(new String[] { DIGEST });
+
+        LocalImagesCache.INSTANCE.populateFromList(Collections.singletonList(image));
+
+        assertThat(LocalImagesCache.INSTANCE.cache).containsKey(new DockerImageName(DIGEST));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void shouldCacheImageByTagAndDigest() {
+        Image image = Mockito.mock(Image.class);
+        Mockito.when(image.getRepoTags()).thenReturn(new String[] { "postgres:16" });
+        Mockito.when(image.getRepoDigests()).thenReturn(new String[] { DIGEST });
+
+        LocalImagesCache.INSTANCE.populateFromList(Collections.singletonList(image));
+
+        assertThat(LocalImagesCache.INSTANCE.cache)
+            .containsKeys(new DockerImageName("postgres:16"), new DockerImageName(DIGEST));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void shouldSkipImageWithoutTagsAndDigests() {
+        Image image = Mockito.mock(Image.class);
+        Mockito.when(image.getRepoTags()).thenReturn(null);
+        Mockito.when(image.getRepoDigests()).thenReturn(null);
+
+        LocalImagesCache.INSTANCE.populateFromList(Collections.singletonList(image));
+
+        assertThat(LocalImagesCache.INSTANCE.cache).isEmpty();
+    }
+}