CVE-2018-15664

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

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).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-15664

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-15664.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1:18.09.7-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed18.09.1+dfsg1-7.1
debian debianbullseyefixed18.09.1+dfsg1-7.1
debian debianforkyfixed18.09.1+dfsg1-7.1
debian debiansidfixed18.09.1+dfsg1-7.1
debian debiantrixiefixed18.09.1+dfsg1-7.1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.