CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-8649

Published: May 01, 2017 | Modified: Oct 26, 2018
CVSS 3.x
9.1
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
9 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

lxc-attach in LXC before 1.0.9 and 2.x before 2.0.6 allows an attacker inside of an unprivileged container to use an inherited file descriptor, of the hosts /proc, to access the rest of the hosts filesystem via the openat() family of syscalls.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Lxc Linuxcontainers * 1.0.9 (excluding)
Lxc Linuxcontainers 2.0.0 (including) 2.0.6 (excluding)

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