CVE-2018-15664
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 7.2%
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).
How to fix CVE-2018-15664
To remediate CVE-2018-15664, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 18.09.1+dfsg1-7.1 or later
Is CVE-2018-15664 being exploited?
Moderate — EPSS is 7.2%. Track this CVE but it's not at the top of the prioritisation list.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 18.09.1+dfsg1-7.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |