7.2
CVSSv2

CVE-2015-3627

Published: 18/05/2015 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 641
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

Libcontainer and Docker Engine prior to 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.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #784726 dockerio: CVE-2015-3627 CVE-2015-3629 CVE-2015-3630 CVE-2015-3631 Package: src:dockerio; Maintainer for src:dockerio is Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@debianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 04:57:01 UTC Severity: grave Tags: fixed-upstrea ...
The file-descriptor passed by libcontainer to the pid-1 process of a container has been found to be opened prior to performing the chroot, allowing insecure open and symlink traversal This allows malicious container images to trigger a local privilege escalation (CVE-2015-3627) Libcontainer version 160 introduced changes which facilitated a mou ...
Libcontainer and Docker Engine before 161 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 ...

Github Repositories

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