CVE-2014-9356

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2014-12-11
Bugzilla:
1172761: CVE-2014-9356 docker: Path traversal during processing of absolute symlinks
It was found that a malicious container image could overwrite arbitrary portions of the host file system by including absolute symlinks, potentially leading to privilege escalation.

Find out more about CVE-2014-9356 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue affects the versions of Docker as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. However, this flaw is not known to be exploitable under any supported scenario. A future update may address this issue.

Red Hat does not support or recommend running untrusted images.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 5.4
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras (docker) RHSA-2015:0623 2015-03-05

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Docker Inc. for reporting this issue.

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