USN-4048-1

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    USN-4048-1

    Published: 8 Jul 2019Last Modified: 10 Feb 2026

    Summary: Docker vulnerabilities

    Details: Aleksa Sarai discovered that Docker was vulnerable to a directory traversal attack. An attacker could use this vulnerability to read and write arbitrary files on the host filesystem as root.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4048-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-15664, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-5736

    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