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Docker < 1.3.2 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Privilege escalation

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

2 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

Docker is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability.

Insight

Insight

The Docker engine is vulnerable to extracting files to arbitrary paths on the host during 'docker pull' and 'docker load' operations. This was caused by symlink and hardlink traversals present in Docker's image extraction.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Docker prior to version 1.3.2.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

Update to version 1.3.2 or later.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)