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CVE-2014-6407

Docker before 1.3.2 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files and execute arbitrary code via a (1) symlink or

Docker before 1.3.2 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files and execute arbitrary code via a (1) symlink or (2) hard link attack in an image archive in a (a) pull or (b) load operation.

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 0.05856
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  • EPSS percentile: top 9% of all CVEs by exploitation likelihood
  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules1 YARA rules0

Affected Products & Versions

2
docker<= 1.3.1
dockerall versions

Affected Packages

1
Language-ecosystem packages (from OSV) tied to this CVE, with the version that fixes it - the dependency-level detail NVD doesn’t carry.
Go github.com/docker/docker HIGH fixed in 1.3.2

Sigma Hunt Rules

1
Exact rules name this CVE ID. Product rules name an affected product in their title. Related rules cover techniques used by actors who exploited this CVE. Showing the most relevant matches; the complete related set is on the full drill-down.
productlowDocker Container Discovery Via Dockerenv Listing

Scoring & Timeline

7.5
HIGH · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published to NVD12 Dec 2014 · 03:59 PM

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6
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2025:03545-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2025:03540-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2025:15589-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10532-1
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