Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package opencontainers/runc (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published26 Jan 2022
- disclosed1 Jun 2016
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 1 Jun 2016
CVE-2016-3697 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
This was deemed not a vulnerability.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions 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.