CVE-2017-14992

Public on 2017-11-01

Modified on 2021-12-02

Description

Lack of content verification in Docker-CE (Also known as Moby) versions 1.12.6-0, 1.10.3, 17.03.0, 17.03.1, 17.03.2, 17.06.0, 17.06.1, 17.06.2, 17.09.0, and earlier allows a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service via a crafted image layer payload, aka gzip bombing.

Severity

Medium

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CVSS v3 Base Score

7.5

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Affected Packages

Platform	Package	Release Date	Advisory
Amazon Linux 1	docker	2018-01-12 21:20	ALAS-2018-941
Amazon Linux 2 - Docker Extra	docker	2021-10-19 19:16	ALAS2DOCKER-2021-006
Amazon Linux 2 - Aws-nitro-enclaves-cli Extra	docker	2021-10-19 19:16	ALAS2NITRO-ENCLAVES-2021-006

CVSS Scores

	Score Type	Score	Vector
Amazon Linux	CVSSv3	7.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	CVSSv2	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD	CVSSv3	6.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Red Hat: CVE-2017-14992 Mitre: CVE-2017-14992 FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity