CVE-2018-15664

Docker vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

3.4%

EPSS pct

88th

Exploited

No known

In Docker through 18.06.1-ce-rc2, the API endpoints behind the 'docker cp' command are vulnerable to a symlink-exchange attack with Directory Traversal, giving attackers arbitrary read-write access to the host filesystem with root privileges, because daemon/archive.go does not do archive operations on a frozen filesystem (or from within a chroot).

Affected vendor

Docker

Affected product

Docker

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-362 — Race Condition

Published

2019-05-23

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable with local access, high attack complexity, requiring low privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

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