Access Restriction Bypass Affecting github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer package, versions >=1.0.0-rc1 <1.0.0-rc3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMOPENCONTAINERSRUNCLIBCONTAINER-50027
  • published21 Oct 2016
  • disclosed21 Oct 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Oct 2016

CVE-2016-8867  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

Affected version of github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Docker Engine 1.12.2 enabled ambient capabilities with misconfigured capability policies. This allowed malicious images to bypass user permissions to access files within the container filesystem or mounted volumes.

CVSS Scores

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