Impact: Important Public Date: 2019-05-23 CWE: CWE-59->CWE-22 Bugzilla: 1714722: CVE-2018-15664 docker: symlink-exchange race attacks in docker cp In Docker through 18.06.1-ce-rc2, the API endpoints behind the 'docker cp' command are vulnerable to a symlink-exchange attack with Directory Traversal, giving attackers arbitrary read-write access to the host filesystem with root privileges, because daemon/archive.go does not do archive operations on a frozen filesystem (or from within a chroot).
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2018-15664 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 9 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Adjacent Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | Low |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Changed |
| Confidentiality | High |
| Integrity Impact | High |
| Availability Impact | High |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3 | docker | Under investigation |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse 7 | docker | Under investigation |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | docker | Under investigation |
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