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high 8.4

CVE-2014-3499 json

Privilege Escalation in Docker

published 2014-07-11 12 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-wxj3-qwv4-cvfm , GO-2022-0752 , EUVD-2022-1240

cvss
8.4
version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 33%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Docker 1.0.0 uses world-readable and world-writable permissions on the management socket, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/docker/docker 1.0.1
  • docker RHEL 7 EXTRAS_OTHER 0.11.1-22.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2014:0820

  • docker-stable SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES for SAP 15 SP3 +12 more 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
  • docker-stable SLES LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5-LTSS 24.0.9_ce-1.20.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:03545-1SUSE-SU-2025:03540-1

  • docker-stable openSUSE Tumbleweed 24.0.9_ce-15.1
  • docker openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.12.3-4.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:15589-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10532-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-3499 updated cvss 7.2

docker: systemd socket activation results in privilege escalation

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras docker 0.11.1-22.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:0820

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
GitHub 3.1 8.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/docker/docker
<1.0.1
1.0.1

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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