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CVE-2018-20699

Public on 2019-01-12
Modified on 2021-12-02
Description

Docker Engine before 18.09 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (dockerd memory consumption) via a large integer in a --cpuset-mems or --cpuset-cpus value, related to daemon/daemon_unix.go, pkg/parsers/parsers.go, and pkg/sysinfo/sysinfo.go.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
4.5
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Docker Extra docker 2021-10-22 22:40 ALAS2DOCKER-2021-003
Amazon Linux 2 - Aws-nitro-enclaves-cli Extra docker 2021-10-22 22:38 ALAS2NITRO-ENCLAVES-2021-003

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 4.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 4.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Red Hat: CVE-2018-20699 Mitre: CVE-2018-20699 FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity