CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-9862

7.8 HIGH Published 2018-04-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-04-09
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-838

Description

util.c in runV 1.0.0 for Docker mishandles a numeric username, which allows attackers to obtain root access by leveraging the presence of an initial numeric value on an /etc/passwd line, and then issuing a "docker exec" command with that value in the -u argument, a similar issue to CVE-2016-3697.

Affected configurations

• hyper runv 1.0.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-838 Inappropriate Encoding for Output Context weakness

References