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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.112987
Category:Privilege escalation
Title:Docker < 1.3.2 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Summary:Docker is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
Docker is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability.

Vulnerability Insight:
The Docker engine is vulnerable to extracting files to
arbitrary paths on the host during 'docker pull' and 'docker load' operations. This was
caused by symlink and hardlink traversals present in Docker's image extraction.

Vulnerability Impact:
This vulnerability could be leveraged to perform remote code
execution and privilege escalation.

Affected Software/OS:
Docker prior to version 1.3.2.

Solution:
Update to version 1.3.2 or later.

CVSS Score:
7.5

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-6407
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145154.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/24/5
http://secunia.com/advisories/60171
http://secunia.com/advisories/60241
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2014:1596 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-12/msg00009.html
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