Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-14992 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Docker
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Lack of content verification in Docker-CE (Also known as Moby) versions 1.12.6-0, 1.10.3, 17.03.0, 17.03.1, 17.03.2, 17.06.0, 17.06.1, 17.06.2, 17.09.0, and earlier allows a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service via a crafted image layer payload, aka gzip bombing.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 12 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Server Side Include (SSI) Injection An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
- Cross Zone Scripting An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
- Cross Site Scripting through Log Files An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
- Command Line Execution through SQL Injection An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.
Nessus
NASL family PhotonOS Local Security Checks NASL id PHOTONOS_PHSA-2017-1_0-0095.NASL description An update of 'curl', 'docker', 'binutils', 'linux','rpm' packages of Photon OS has been released. last seen 2019-02-21 modified 2019-02-07 plugin id 111904 published 2018-08-17 reporter Tenable source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=111904 title Photon OS 1.0: Binutils / Curl / Docker / Linux / Rpm PHSA-2017-1.0-0095 (deprecated) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # @DEPRECATED@ # # Disabled on 2/7/2019 # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2017-1.0-0095. The text # itself is copyright (C) VMware, Inc. include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(111904); script_version("1.2"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/02/07 18:59:50"); script_cve_id( "CVE-2017-7501", "CVE-2017-8818", "CVE-2017-12190", "CVE-2017-14992", "CVE-2017-17121", "CVE-2017-17122", "CVE-2017-17124", "CVE-2017-17125", "CVE-2017-1000407" ); script_name(english:"Photon OS 1.0: Binutils / Curl / Docker / Linux / Rpm PHSA-2017-1.0-0095 (deprecated)"); script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated packages."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value: "This plugin has been deprecated."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value: "An update of 'curl', 'docker', 'binutils', 'linux','rpm' packages of Photon OS has been released."); # https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Updates-1.0-95 script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?5e92d3f9"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"n/a."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2017-8818"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/12/28"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/08/17"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:binutils"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:curl"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:docker"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:linux"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:rpm"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:vmware:photonos:1.0"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_family(english:"PhotonOS Local Security Checks"); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/PhotonOS/release", "Host/PhotonOS/rpm-list"); exit(0); } exit(0, "This plugin has been deprecated."); include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/PhotonOS/release"); if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^VMware Photon") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "PhotonOS"); if (release !~ "^VMware Photon (?:Linux|OS) 1\.0(\D|$)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "PhotonOS 1.0"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/PhotonOS/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "PhotonOS", cpu); flag = 0; pkgs = [ "binutils-2.29.1-3.ph1", "binutils-debuginfo-2.29.1-3.ph1", "binutils-devel-2.29.1-3.ph1", "curl-7.56.1-2.ph1", "curl-debuginfo-7.56.1-2.ph1", "docker-17.06.0-2.ph1", "docker-doc-17.06.0-2.ph1", "linux-4.4.106-1.ph1", "linux-api-headers-4.4.106-1.ph1", "linux-debuginfo-4.4.106-1.ph1", "linux-dev-4.4.106-1.ph1", "linux-docs-4.4.106-1.ph1", "linux-drivers-gpu-4.4.106-1.ph1", "linux-esx-4.4.106-1.ph1", "linux-esx-debuginfo-4.4.106-1.ph1", "linux-esx-devel-4.4.106-1.ph1", "linux-esx-docs-4.4.106-1.ph1", "linux-oprofile-4.4.106-1.ph1", "linux-sound-4.4.106-1.ph1", "linux-tools-4.4.106-1.ph1", "rpm-4.13.0.1-4.ph1", "rpm-debuginfo-4.13.0.1-4.ph1" ]; foreach (pkg in pkgs) if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-1.0", reference:pkg)) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_HOLE, extra : rpm_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "binutils / curl / docker / linux / rpm"); }NASL family PhotonOS Local Security Checks NASL id PHOTONOS_PHSA-2018-2_0-0086.NASL description An update of 'docker', 'python2', 'strongswan' packages of Photon OS has been released. last seen 2019-02-21 modified 2019-02-07 plugin id 112224 published 2018-08-31 reporter Tenable source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=112224 title Photon OS 2.0: Docker / Python2 / Strongswan PHSA-2018-2.0-0086 (deprecated) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # @DEPRECATED@ # # Disabled on 2/7/2019 # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2018-2.0-0086. The text # itself is copyright (C) VMware, Inc. include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(112224); script_version("1.2"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/02/07 18:59:51"); script_cve_id( "CVE-2017-14992", "CVE-2018-1060", "CVE-2018-1061", "CVE-2018-10811" ); script_name(english:"Photon OS 2.0: Docker / Python2 / Strongswan PHSA-2018-2.0-0086 (deprecated)"); script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated packages."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value: "This plugin has been deprecated."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value: "An update of 'docker', 'python2', 'strongswan' packages of Photon OS has been released."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Updates-2-86"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"n/a."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2018-1060"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/08/23"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/08/31"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:docker"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:python2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:strongswan"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:vmware:photonos:2.0"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_family(english:"PhotonOS Local Security Checks"); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/PhotonOS/release", "Host/PhotonOS/rpm-list"); exit(0); } exit(0, "This plugin has been deprecated."); include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/PhotonOS/release"); if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^VMware Photon") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "PhotonOS"); if (release !~ "^VMware Photon (?:Linux|OS) 2\.0(\D|$)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "PhotonOS 2.0"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/PhotonOS/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "PhotonOS", cpu); flag = 0; pkgs = [ "docker-17.06.0-6.ph2", "docker-doc-17.06.0-6.ph2", "python2-2.7.15-1.ph2", "python2-debuginfo-2.7.15-1.ph2", "python2-devel-2.7.15-1.ph2", "python2-libs-2.7.15-1.ph2", "python2-test-2.7.15-1.ph2", "python2-tools-2.7.15-1.ph2", "strongswan-5.5.2-5.ph2", "strongswan-debuginfo-5.5.2-5.ph2" ]; foreach (pkg in pkgs) if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:pkg)) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_WARNING, extra : rpm_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "docker / python2 / strongswan"); }NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2019-723711C645.NASL description - Resolves: #1666565, #1667625 - CVE-2018-20699 - Resolves: #1663068, #1667626 - umount all procfs and sysfs with --no-pivot - built docker @projectatomic/docker-1.13.1 commit 1185cfd - built docker-runc @projectatomic/docker-1.13.1 commit e4ffe43 ---- Resolves: #1598581, #1598582 - CVE-2018-10892 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2019-01-31 plugin id 121488 published 2019-01-31 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/121488 title Fedora 28 : 2:docker-latest (2019-723711c645) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2017-3976710F1E.NASL description Resolves: #1510351 - CVE-2017-14992 built docker @projectatomic/docker-1.13.1 commit 584d391 built docker-novolume-plugin commit 385ec70 built rhel-push-plugin commit af9107b built docker-lvm-plugin commit 8647404 built docker-runc @projectatomic/docker-1.13.1 commit 1c91122 built docker-containerd @projectatomic/docker-1.13.1 commit 62a9c60 built docker-init commit 0effd37 built libnetwork commit 460ac8f ---- make /etc/sysconfig/docker-storage-setup ghost but not config, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1508376 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2017-12-11 plugin id 105127 published 2017-12-11 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/105127 title Fedora 26 : 2:docker (2017-3976710f1e) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2018-152.NASL description This update for docker, docker-runc, containerd, golang-github-docker-libnetwork fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-16539: The DefaultLinuxSpec function in oci/defaults.go docker did not block /proc/scsi pathnames, which allowed attackers to trigger data loss (when certain older Linux kernels are used) by leveraging Docker container access to write a last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2018-02-09 plugin id 106705 published 2018-02-09 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/106705 title openSUSE Security Update : docker / docker-runc / containerd / etc (openSUSE-2018-152) NASL family PhotonOS Local Security Checks NASL id PHOTONOS_PHSA-2017-1_0-0095_DOCKER.NASL description An update of the docker package has been released. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2019-02-07 plugin id 121785 published 2019-02-07 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/121785 title Photon OS 1.0: Docker PHSA-2017-1.0-0095 NASL family Amazon Linux Local Security Checks NASL id ALA_ALAS-2018-941.NASL description Lack of content verification in Docker-CE (Also known as Moby) versions 1.12.6-0, 1.10.3, 17.03.0, 17.03.1, 17.03.2, 17.06.0, 17.06.1, 17.06.2, 17.09.0, and earlier allows a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service via a crafted image layer payload, aka gzip bombing. (CVE-2017-14992) last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 106168 published 2018-01-19 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/106168 title Amazon Linux AMI : docker (ALAS-2018-941) NASL family PhotonOS Local Security Checks NASL id PHOTONOS_PHSA-2018-2_0-0086_DOCKER.NASL description An update of the docker package has been released. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2019-02-07 plugin id 121984 published 2019-02-07 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/121984 title Photon OS 2.0: Docker PHSA-2018-2.0-0086