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CVE-2017-20198 (GCVE-0-2017-20198)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-23 13:50 – Updated: 2026-05-15 11:14
VLAI
Title
DC/OS Marathon UI < 1.9.0 Unauthenticated RCE via Docker Mount Abuse
Summary
The Marathon UI in DC/OS < 1.9.0 allows unauthenticated users to deploy arbitrary Docker containers. Due to improper restriction of volume mount configurations, attackers can deploy a container that mounts the host's root filesystem (/) with read/write privileges. When using a malicious Docker image, the attacker can write to /etc/cron.d/ on the host, achieving arbitrary code execution with root privileges. This impacts any system where the Docker daemon honors Marathon container configurations without policy enforcement.
Severity
9.3 (Critical)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-07-23 14:50 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-732 - Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
D2iQ, Inc. DC/OS Marathon Affected: 0 , < 1.9.0 (custom)
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Date Public
2017-06-07 00:00
Credits
Erik Daguerre
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