{"id":"CVE-2018-15664","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-15664","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:55:46.072Z","title":"In Docker through 18.06.1-ce-rc2, the API endpoints behind the 'docker cp' command are vulnerable to a symlink-exchange attack with Directory Traversal, giving attackers arbitrary read-write access to the host filesystem with root privileges, because…","description":"In Docker through 18.06.1-ce-rc2, the API endpoints behind the 'docker cp' command are vulnerable to a symlink-exchange attack with Directory Traversal, giving attackers arbitrary read-write access to the host filesystem with root privileges, because daemon/archive.go does not do archive operations on a frozen filesystem (or from within a chroot).","published":"2019-05-23T14:29:07.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:42:54.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-362"],"affected":["docker/docker"],"epss":{"score":0.03427,"percentile":0.88859,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.43%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00066.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00001.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/05/28/1","tags":["Exploit","Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/08/21/1","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108507","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1910","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1096726","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/39252","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-15664","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4048-1/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-15664","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"nvd@nist.gov"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00066.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00001.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/05/28/1","tags":["Exploit","Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/08/21/1","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108507","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1910","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1096726","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/39252","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-15664","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4048-1/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15664","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}