Race Condition Affecting docker package, versions <0:18.06.1ce-10.32.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-DOCKER-1719345
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed23 May 2019

Introduced: 23 May 2019

CVE-2018-15664  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 docker to version 0:18.06.1ce-10.32.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2019-1245.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream docker package and not the docker package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.

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).