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CVE-2015-3627 (GCVE-0-2015-3627)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-05-18 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 05:47
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Summary
Libcontainer and Docker Engine before 1.6.1 opens the file-descriptor passed to the pid-1 process before performing the chroot, which allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack in an image.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2015-05-07 00:00
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