Medium severity · published Jan 12, 2019
CVE-2018-20699
Docker Engine before 18.09 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (dockerd memory consumption) via a large integer in a --cpuset-mems or --cpuset-cpus value, related to…
4.9
CVSS
2.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Docker Engine before 18.09 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (dockerd memory consumption) via a large integer in a --cpuset-mems or --cpuset-cpus value, related to daemon/daemon_unix.go, pkg/parsers/parsers.go, and pkg/sysinfo/sysinfo.go.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.2% · higher than 83% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
EN
Engine · Docker
before 18.09 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20699
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20699
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0487
Patch
https://github.com/docker/engine/pull/70
Patch
https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/37967
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