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CVE-2014-8179
Docker Engine before 1.8.3 and CS Docker Engine before 1.6.2-CS7 does not properly validate and extract the manifest object from its JSON…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 2.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 14% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Docker Engine before 1.8.3 and CS Docker Engine before 1.6.2-CS7 does not properly validate and extract the manifest object from its JSON representation during a pull, which allows attackers to inject new attributes in a JSON object and bypass pull-by-digest validation.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.7% · top 14% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
- affected before 1.8.3
- affected before 1.6.2-CS7
References
References6
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00036.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00014.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/docker-dev/bWVVtLNbFy8/UaefOqMOCAAJ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#183-2015-10-12 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://blog.docker.com/2015/10/security-release-docker-1-8-3-1-6-2-cs7/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.docker.com/legal/docker-cve-database (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2014-8020 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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