CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-3697

7.8 HIGH Published 2016-06-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-06-01
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Description

libcontainer/user/user.go in runC before 0.1.0, as used in Docker before 1.11.2, improperly treats a numeric UID as a potential username, which allows local users to gain privileges via a numeric username in the password file in a container.

Affected configurations

• docker docker (<= 1.11.1) • linuxfoundation runc (<= 0.0.9) • opensuse opensuse 13.2

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References