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CVE-2019-5736

Public on 2019-02-08
Modified on 2019-02-11
Description

A flaw was found in the way runc handled system file descriptors when running containers. A malicious container could use this flaw to overwrite contents of the runc binary and consequently run arbitrary commands on the container host system.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.7
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 docker 2019-02-08 22:28 ALAS-2019-1156

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.7 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv3 8.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C