CVE-2014-8179: vulnerability in Docker Engine
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3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 2.7%
Docker Engine before 1.8.3 and CS Docker Engine before 1.6.2-CS7 does not properly validate and extract the manifest object from its JSON representation during a pull, which allows attackers to inject new attributes in a JSON object and bypass pull-by-digest validation.
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References
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00014.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00036.htmlhttps://blog.docker.com/2015/10/security-release-docker-1-8-3-1-6-2-cs7/https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#183-2015-10-12https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/docker-dev/bWVVtLNbFy8/UaefOqMOCAAJhttps://www.docker.com/legal/docker-cve-database