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CVE-2017-16539

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-11-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The DefaultLinuxSpec function in oci/defaults.go in Docker Moby through 17.03.2-ce does not block /proc/scsi pathnames, which allows attackers to trigger data loss (when certain older Linux kernels are used) by leveraging Docker container access to write a "scsi remove-single-device" line to /proc/scsi/scsi, aka SCSI MICDROP.

Affected products

• Docker Engine: through 17.03.2

References

• https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/35399
• https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/35399/commits/a21ecdf3c8a343a7c94e4c4d01b178c87ca7aaa1
• https://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=150985062200941&w=2
• https://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=150985455801444&w=2
• https://twitter.com/ewindisch/status/926443521820774401
• https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/35399
• https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/35399/commits/a21ecdf3c8a343a7c94e4c4d01b178c87ca7aaa1
• https://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=150985062200941&w=2
• https://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=150985455801444&w=2
• https://twitter.com/ewindisch/status/926443521820774401

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