CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-8867

Published: Oct 28, 2016 | Modified: Jul 28, 2017

CVSS 3.x

7.5

HIGH

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS 2.x

5 MEDIUM

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8867
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

Docker Engine 1.12.2 enabled ambient capabilities with misconfigured capability policies. This allowed malicious images to bypass user permissions to access files within the container filesystem or mounted volumes.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Docker	Docker	1.12.2 (including)	1.12.2 (including)

References

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