CVE-2018-15664

HIGH

Docker through 18.06.1-ce-rc2 - Directory Traversal and Arbitrary File Write via Symlink Exchange

Title source: llm

Description

In Docker through 18.06.1-ce-rc2, the API endpoints behind the 'docker cp' command are vulnerable to a symlink-exchange attack with Directory Traversal, giving attackers arbitrary read-write access to the host filesystem with root privileges, because daemon/archive.go does not do archive operations on a frozen filesystem (or from within a chroot).

References (11)

Core 11

Core References

Third Party Advisory

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-15664

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1096726

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/39252

Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/05/28/1

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108507

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00066.html

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4048-1/

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-15664

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1910

Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/08/21/1

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00001.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0340

EPSS Percentile 87.3%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Details

CWE

CWE-362

Status published

Products (14)

docker/docker 17.06.0-ce (6 CPE variants)

docker/docker 17.06.1-ce (5 CPE variants)

docker/docker 17.06.2-ce (2 CPE variants)

docker/docker 17.07.0-ce (5 CPE variants)

docker/docker 17.09.0-ce (4 CPE variants)

docker/docker 17.09.1-ce

docker/docker 17.09.1-ce- rc1

docker/docker 17.10.0-ce (3 CPE variants)

docker/docker 17.11.0-ce (5 CPE variants)

docker/docker 17.12.0-ce (5 CPE variants)

... and 4 more

Published May 23, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026