CVE-2017-7412
high
CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.8
Description
NixOS 17.03 before 17.03.887 has a world-writable Docker socket, which allows local users to gain privileges by executing docker commands.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2017-April/023329.html
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/6c59d851e2967410cc8fb6ba3f374b1d3efa988e
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/fa4fe7110566d8370983fa81f2b04a833339236d
- http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2017-April/023329.html
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/6c59d851e2967410cc8fb6ba3f374b1d3efa988e
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/fa4fe7110566d8370983fa81f2b04a833339236d
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.