CVE-2018-20699

low-risk

Published 2019-01-12

Docker Engine before 18.09 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (dockerd memory consumption) via a large integer in a --cpuset-mems or --cpuset-cpus value, related to daemon/daemon_unix.go, pkg/parsers/parsers.go, and pkg/sysinfo/sysinfo.go.

Do I need to act?

0.08% chance of exploitation

EPSS score — low exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 4.9/10 Medium

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (2)

Engine

Enterprise Linux Server

Affected Vendors

Redhat Docker

References (6)

Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0487

Patch https://github.com/docker/engine/pull/70

Patch https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/37967

Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0487

Patch https://github.com/docker/engine/pull/70

Patch https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/37967

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low-risk

Severity 20/34 · Moderate

Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal

Exposure 7/34 · Low