What is CVE-2018-20699?

CVE-2018-20699 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Docker Engine, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2019-01-12.

How severe is CVE-2018-20699?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Docker Engine

CVE-2018-20699

Docker Engine before 18.09 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (dockerd memory consumption) via a large integer in a --cpuset-mems or --cpuset-cpus value, related to daemon/daemon_unix.go, pkg/parsers/parsers.go, and pkg/sysinfo/…

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.022 (80.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Docker Engine
Redhat Enterprise_linux_server — versions 7.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-20699?: CVE-2018-20699 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Docker Engine, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2019-01-12.
How severe is CVE-2018-20699?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.