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CVE-2014-8179

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.7% 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 does not properly validate and extract the manifest object from its JSON representation during a pull, which allows attackers to inject new attributes in a JSON object and bypass pull-by-digest validation.

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://blog.docker.com/2015/10/security-release-docker-1-8-3-1-6-2-cs7/
• 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://blog.docker.com/2015/10/security-release-docker-1-8-3-1-6-2-cs7/
• 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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