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CVE-2016-3697

Published: Jun 01, 2016 | Modified: Jan 05, 2021
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
6 MODERATE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3697
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

libcontainer/user/user.go in runC before 0.1.0, as used in Docker before 1.11.2, improperly treats a numeric UID as a potential username, which allows local users to gain privileges via a numeric username in the password file in a container.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Docker Docker * 1.11.1 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras RedHat docker-0:1.9.1-40.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras RedHat docker-0:1.10.3-57.el7 *
Docker.io Ubuntu wily *
Docker.io Ubuntu yakkety *
Runc Ubuntu devel *
Runc Ubuntu upstream *
Runc Ubuntu yakkety *
Runc Ubuntu zesty *

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