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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.