PT-2017-17720 · Nixos+1 · Nixos+1

Published 2017-04-04 · Updated 2020-05-07 · CVE-2017-7412

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions NixOS versions prior to 17.03.887

Description The issue allows local users to gain privileges by executing docker commands, due to a world-writable Docker socket.

Recommendations For versions prior to 17.03.887, update to version 17.03.887 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-7412

Affected Products

Docker

Nixos

References · 5

• https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/fa4fe7110566d8370983fa81f2b04a833339236d · Patch
• https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/6c59d851e2967410cc8fb6ba3f374b1d3efa988e · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-7412 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7412 · Security Note
• http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2017-April/023329.html · Note