UBUNTU-CVE-2018-15664

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-15664

    Published: 23 May 2019Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-15664
    Aliases:
    USN-4048-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-15664, https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/05/28/1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4048-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-15664

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: docker.io

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~16.04.4?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -18.09.7-0ubuntu1~16.04.4

    Affected versions

    1.6.2~dfsg1-1ubuntu4

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High