Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-5985

Title: Linuxcontainers Lxc Broken Access Control

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-5985.

CWE Category CWE-862

Published Date Mar 14, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 3.3 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.34%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-5985: lxc-user-nic in Linux Containers (LXC) allows local users with a lxc-usernet allocation to create network interfaces on the host and choose the name of those interfaces by leveraging lack of netns ownership check.

Impacted Vendors

linuxcontainers 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00073.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/09/4 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96777 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3224-1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1654676 https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/16af238036a5464ae8f2420ed3af214f0de875f9 https://lists.linuxcontainers.org/pipermail/lxc-devel/2017-March/015535.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00073.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/09/4 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96777 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3224-1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1654676 https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/16af238036a5464ae8f2420ed3af214f0de875f9 https://lists.linuxcontainers.org/pipermail/lxc-devel/2017-March/015535.html

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

3.3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

2.1

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns