CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-3627
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-05-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
Libcontainer and Docker Engine before 1.6.1 opens the file-descriptor passed to the pid-1 process before performing the chroot, which allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack in an image.
Affected configurations
• docker docker (<= 1.6)
• docker libcontainer (<= 1.6.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00023.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131835/Docker-Privilege-Escalation-Information-Disclosure.html packetstormsecurity.com
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/May/28 seclists.org
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21searchin/docker-user/1.6.1/docker-user/47GZrihtr-4/nwgeOOFLexIJ groups.google.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00023.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131835/Docker-Privilege-Escalation-Information-Disclosure.html packetstormsecurity.com
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/May/28 seclists.org
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21searchin/docker-user/1.6.1/docker-user/47GZrihtr-4/nwgeOOFLexIJ groups.google.com