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CVE-2017-14992

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-11-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Lack of content verification in Docker-CE (Also known as Moby) versions 1.12.6-0, 1.10.3, 17.03.0, 17.03.1, 17.03.2, 17.06.0, 17.06.1, 17.06.2, 17.09.0, and earlier allows a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service via a crafted image layer payload, aka gzip bombing.

Affected products

• Docker Engine: through 1.10.3; 1.12.6-0, 17.03.0, 17.03.1, 17.03.2, 17.06.0, 17.06.1 (+2)

References

• https://blog.cloudpassage.com/2017/10/13/discovering-docker-cve-2017-14992/
• https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/35075
• https://blog.cloudpassage.com/2017/10/13/discovering-docker-cve-2017-14992/
• https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/35075

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