Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-14992

Title: Docker Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-14992.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Nov 01, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.5 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.42%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-14992: 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.

Impacted Vendors

docker 1

redhat 1

synology 1

Reference Links

https://blog.cloudpassage.com/2017/10/13/discovering-docker-cve-2017-14992/ https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/35075 https://blog.cloudpassage.com/2017/10/13/discovering-docker-cve-2017-14992/ https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/35075

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns