vulnerability

Docker CE: Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CVE-2018-15514)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 1, 2018
Added
Nov 25, 2019
Modified
Apr 7, 2026

Description

HandleRequestAsync in Docker for Windows before 18.06.0-ce-rc3-win68 (edge) and before 18.06.0-ce-win72 (stable) deserialized requests over the \\.\pipe\dockerBackend named pipe without verifying the validity of the deserialized .NET objects. This would allow a malicious user in the "docker-users" group (who may not otherwise have administrator access) to escalate to administrator privileges.

Solution

docker-ce-upgrade-18_06_0
Title
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