CVE-2016-8649 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

lxc-attach in LXC before 1.0.9 and 2.x before 2.0.6 allows an attacker inside of an unprivileged container to use an inherited file descriptor, of the host's /proc, to access the rest of the host's filesystem via the openat() family of syscalls.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.02154.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Linuxcontainers	Lxc

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:linuxcontainers:lxc::::::::
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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2016-9488	lxc-attach in LXC before 1.0.9 and 2.x before 2.0.6 allows an attacker inside of an unprivileged container to use an inherited file descriptor, of the host's /proc, to access the rest of the host's filesystem via the openat() family of syscalls.
Ubuntu USN	USN-3136-1	LXC vulnerability

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94498
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845465
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1639345
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1398242
https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/81f466d05f2a89cb4f122ef7f593ff3f279b165c
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8649

History

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2017-05-01T06:08:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:27:41.373Z

Reserved: 2016-10-12T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-8649

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-05-01T06:59:00.157

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2016-8649

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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