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CVE-2015-3627

Public on 2015-05-07
Modified on 2015-05-06
Description

Libcontainer and Docker Engine before 1.6.1 opens the file-descriptor passed to the pid-1 process before performing the chroot, which allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack in an image.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
4.3
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 docker 2015-05-07 13:37 ALAS-2015-522

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C