CVE-2018-15664
In Docker through 18.06.1-ce-rc2, the API endpoints behind the 'docker cp' command are vulnerable to a symlink-exchange attack with…
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Description
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).
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 9 months later
· 9 months 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 | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.4% · top 11% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (10)
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1096726 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/39252 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20190528 CVE-2018-15664: docker (all versions) is vulnerable to a symlink-race attack (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 108507 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1621 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-4048-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-15664 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:1910 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20190821 RE: CVE-2018-15664: docker (all versions) is vulnerable to a symlink-race attack (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2044 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_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)
- 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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