diff --git a/cmd/buildah/build.go b/cmd/buildah/build.go
index 4157df001..3e155f44a 100644
--- a/cmd/buildah/build.go
+++ b/cmd/buildah/build.go
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ func getContainerfiles(files []string) []string {
 
 func buildCmd(c *cobra.Command, inputArgs []string, iopts buildOptions) error {
 	output := ""
+	cleanTmpFile := false
 	tags := []string{}
 	if c.Flag("tag").Changed {
 		tags = iopts.Tag
@@ -111,6 +112,10 @@ func buildCmd(c *cobra.Command, inputArgs []string, iopts buildOptions) error {
 	if err := auth.CheckAuthFile(iopts.BudResults.Authfile); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
+	iopts.BudResults.Authfile, cleanTmpFile = buildahutil.MirrorToTempFileIfPathIsDescriptor(iopts.BudResults.Authfile)
+	if cleanTmpFile {
+		defer os.Remove(iopts.BudResults.Authfile)
+	}
 
 	pullPolicy := define.PullIfMissing
 	if iopts.Pull {
diff --git a/pkg/util/util.go b/pkg/util/util.go
index 8410d3984..209ad9544 100644
--- a/pkg/util/util.go
+++ b/pkg/util/util.go
@@ -1,12 +1,44 @@
 package util
 
 import (
+	"io/ioutil"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
 )
 
+// Mirrors path to a tmpfile if path points to a
+// file descriptor instead of actual file on filesystem
+// reason: operations with file descriptors are can lead
+// to edge cases where content on FD is not in a consumable
+// state after first consumption.
+// returns path as string and bool to confirm if temp file
+// was created and needs to be cleaned up.
+func MirrorToTempFileIfPathIsDescriptor(file string) (string, bool) {
+	// one use-case is discussed here
+	// https://github.com/containers/buildah/issues/3070
+	if !strings.HasPrefix(file, "/dev/fd") {
+		return file, false
+	}
+	b, err := ioutil.ReadFile(file)
+	if err != nil {
+		// if anything goes wrong return original path
+		return file, false
+	}
+	tmpfile, err := ioutil.TempFile(os.TempDir(), "buildah-temp-file")
+	if err != nil {
+		return file, false
+	}
+	if _, err := tmpfile.Write(b); err != nil {
+		// if anything goes wrong return original path
+		return file, false
+	}
+
+	return tmpfile.Name(), true
+}
+
 // DiscoverContainerfile tries to find a Containerfile or a Dockerfile within the provided `path`.
 func DiscoverContainerfile(path string) (foundCtrFile string, err error) {
 	// Test for existence of the file
diff --git a/tests/bud.bats b/tests/bud.bats
index aa9a59c5b..7b9adc43e 100644
--- a/tests/bud.bats
+++ b/tests/bud.bats
@@ -2261,6 +2261,14 @@ _EOF
   run_buildah 125 build --authfile /tmp/nonexistent --signature-policy ${TESTSDIR}/policy.json -t ${target} ${TESTSDIR}/bud/containerfile
 }
 
+
+@test "bud for multi-stage Containerfile with invalid registry and --authfile as a fd, should fail with no such host" {
+  target=alpine-multi-stage-image
+  run_buildah 125 build --authfile=<(echo "{ \"auths\": { \"myrepository.example\": { \"auth\": \"$(echo 'username:password' | base64 --wrap=0)\" } } }") -t ${target} --file ${TESTSDIR}/bud/from-invalid-registry/Containerfile
+  # Should fail with `no such host` instead of: error reading JSON file "/dev/fd/x"
+  expect_output --substring "no such host"
+}
+
 @test "bud COPY with URL should fail" {
   mkdir ${TESTSDIR}/bud/copy
   FILE=${TESTSDIR}/bud/copy/Dockerfile.url
diff --git a/tests/bud/from-invalid-registry/Containerfile b/tests/bud/from-invalid-registry/Containerfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..00dc3081f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/bud/from-invalid-registry/Containerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+FROM alpine as build
+# Invalid registry and image
+FROM myrepository.example/image:tag