CVE-2023-40453

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2023-11-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-116

Description

Docker Machine through 0.16.2 allows an attacker, who has control of a worker node, to provide crafted version data, which might potentially trick an administrator into performing an unsafe action (via escape sequence injection), or might have a data size that causes a denial of service to a bastion node. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.

Affected products

Docker Machine: through 0.16.2

References

https://github.com/docker/machine/releases
https://hackerone.com/reports/1916285
https://vin01.github.io/piptagole/docker/security/gitlab/docker-machine/2023/07/07/docker-machine-attack-surface.html
https://github.com/docker/machine/releases
https://hackerone.com/reports/1916285
https://vin01.github.io/piptagole/docker/security/gitlab/docker-machine/2023/07/07/docker-machine-attack-surface.html

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