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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2020-15157): Docker vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2020-15157): Docker vulnerability

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
10/15/2020
Created
10/19/2020
Added
10/16/2020
Modified
03/19/2021

Description

Details for this vulnerability have not been published by NIST at this point. Descriptions from software vendor advisories for this issue are provided below.

From USN-4589-2:

USN-4589-1 fixed a vulnerability in containerd. This update provides the corresponding update for docker.io.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that containerd could be made to expose sensitive information when processing URLs in container image manifests. A remote attacker could use this to trick the user and obtain the user's registry credentials.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-containerd
  • ubuntu-upgrade-docker-io

References

  • USN-4589-1
  • USN-4589-2
  • CVE-2020-15157

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