ALPINE-CVE-2019-5736

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CVE-2019-5736
Published: 11 Feb 2019, 19:29
Last modified:03 Dec 2025, 22:46

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
34/100
CVSS Score
8.6 HIGH
3.1 (osv_alpine)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

11 Feb 2019, 19:29
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Dec 2025, 22:46
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

runc through 1.0-rc6, as used in Docker before 18.09.2 and other products, allows attackers to overwrite the host runc binary (and consequently obtain host root access) by leveraging the ability to execute a command as root within one of these types of containers: (1) a new container with an attacker-controlled image, or (2) an existing container, to which the attacker previously had write access, that can be attached with docker exec. This occurs because of file-descriptor mishandling, related to /proc/self/exe.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 8.6CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Systems

  • alpine•lxc

    < 3.1.0-r1 | < 3.1.0-r1 | < 3.1.0-r1 | < 3.1.0-r1 | < 3.1.0-r1 | < 3.1.0-r1 | < 3.1.0-r1 | < 3.1.0-r1 | < 3.1.0-r1 | < 3.1.0-r1 | < 3.1.0-r1 | < 3.1.0-r1 | < 3.1.0-r1 | < 3.1.0-r1 | < 3.1.0-r1

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