CVE-2014-8178

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-12-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

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.

Affected products

Docker Cs Engine: before 1.6.2-cs7 — fixed in 1.6.2-cs7
Docker Engine: before 1.8.3 — fixed in 1.8.3
Opensuse: 13.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Docker Cs Engine 1.6.2-cs7; Docker Engine 1.8.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00014.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00036.html
https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#183-2015-10-12
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/docker-dev/bWVVtLNbFy8/UaefOqMOCAAJ
https://www.docker.com/legal/docker-cve-database
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00014.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00036.html
https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#183-2015-10-12
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/docker-dev/bWVVtLNbFy8/UaefOqMOCAAJ
https://www.docker.com/legal/docker-cve-database

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