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medium 5.5

CVE-2014-8178 json

Docker Engine before 1.8.3 and CS Docker Engine before 1.6.2-CS7 do not use a globally unique identifier to store image layers, which makes…

published 2019-12-04 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-8019

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 42%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Docker Engine before 1.8.3 and CS Docker Engine before 1.6.2-CS7 do not use a globally unique identifier to store image layers, which makes it easier for attackers to poison the image cache via a crafted image in pull or push commands.

Patch / fix

  • docker cs_engine 1.6.2-cs7
  • docker docker 1.8.3
  • docker.io Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.8.3~ds1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8178

  • docker.io Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.10.3-0ubuntu6

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8178

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • 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 SLE Module for Containers 12 1.8.3-49.1
  • 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-2025:03540-1SUSE-SU-2015:1757-1

  • 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-2014-8178 updated cvss 1.2

docker: Attacker controlled layer IDs lead to local graph content poisoning

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 docker
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

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

0.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 42% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 1.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

  • Docker Docker Engine
  • Docker CS Docker Engine

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.