CVE-2018-15664

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).

• CWE-362

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00066.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00001.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/05/28/1Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/08/21/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108507Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1910
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1096726Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/39252Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-15664
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4048-1/
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-15664Third Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00066.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00001.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/05/28/1Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/08/21/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108507Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1910
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1096726Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/39252Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-15664
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4048-1/

Published

May 23, 2019

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified