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Fencer Intel
high 8.6

CVE-2014-9356 json

Path Traversal in Docker

published 2019-12-02 6 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-vj3f-3286-r4pf , GO-2022-0751 , EUVD-2021-1205

cvss
8.6
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.9%
EPSS 4.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Path traversal vulnerability in Docker before 1.3.3 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files and bypass a container protection mechanism via a full pathname in a symlink in an (1) image or (2) build in a Dockerfile.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/docker/docker 1.3.3
  • docker docker 1.3.3
  • docker.io Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.3.3~dfsg1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9356

  • docker RHEL 7 EXTRAS_OTHER 1.4.1-37.el7
  • docker-python RHEL 7 EXTRAS_OTHER 0.7.1-37.el7
  • docker-logrotate RHEL 7 EXTRAS_OTHER 1.4.1-37.el7
  • python-websocket-client RHEL 7 EXTRAS_OTHER 0.14.1-37.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2015:0623

  • 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-2014-9356 updated cvss 5.4

docker: Path traversal during processing of absolute symlinks

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 osp-director-provisioner-container, rhosp-rhel8-tech-preview/osp-director-operator, rhosp-rhel8-tech-preview/osp-director-downloader
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras docker 1.4.1-37.el7, docker-python 0.7.1-37.el7, docker-logrotate 1.4.1-37.el7, python-websocket-client 0.14.1-37.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:0623

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

4.92% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 8.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:P
GitHub 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/docker/docker
<1.3.3
1.3.3

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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