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CVE-2016-3697
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2016-06-01 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-264
Description
libcontainer/user/user.go in runC before 0.1.0, as used in Docker before 1.11.2, improperly treats a numeric UID as a potential username, which allows local users to gain privileges via a numeric username in the password file in a container.
Affected products
- Docker Engine: through 1.11.1
- opencontainers runc: through 0.0.9
- Opensuse: 13.2
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00111.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1034.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2634.html
- https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/21436
- https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/69af385de62ea68e2e608335cffbb0f4aa3db091
- https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/pull/708
- https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/releases/tag/v0.1.0
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-28
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00111.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1034.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2634.html
- https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/21436
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