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Privilege Elevation Affecting github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/user Open this link in a new tab package, versions <0.1.0

0.0
high

  • Attack Complexity

    Low

  • Confidentiality

    High

  • Integrity

    High

  • Availability

    High

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  • snyk-id

    SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMOPENCONTAINERSRUNCLIBCONTAINERUSER-50037

  • published

    24 Mar 2016

  • disclosed

    24 Mar 2016

  • credit

    Unknown

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Introduced: 24 Mar 2016

CVE-2016-3697 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-264 Open this link in a new tab

Overview

Affected version of github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/user are vulnerable to Privilege Elevation. libcontainer/user/user.go in runC before 0.1.0, as used in Docker before 1.11.2, improperly treats a numeric UID as a potential username, which allows local users to gain privileges via a numeric username in the password file in a container.