CVE-2016-3697

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3697
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-3697.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-3697
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-06-01T20:59:06.137Z
Modified
2026-07-08T05:49:00.467189099Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

libcontainer/user/user.go in runC before 0.1.0, as used in Docker before 1.11.2, improperly treats a numeric UID as a potential username, which allows local users to gain privileges via a numeric username in the password file in a container.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "1.11.1"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "1.11.1"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "1.11.1"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_RANGE",
            "vendor_product": "docker:docker",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:docker:docker:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "13.2"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "13.2"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "opensuse:opensuse",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/opencontainers/runc

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
94dc520a5732126985fec249f80c91b9e0601815
Fixed
69af385de62ea68e2e608335cffbb0f4aa3db091
Fixed
8e129e097220b2591edd59957c4ff08e064e14b9
Database specific 
{
    "source": [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:linuxfoundation:runc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.0.9"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v0.*
v0.0.1
v0.0.2
v0.0.3
v0.0.4
v0.0.5
v0.0.6
v0.0.7
v0.0.8
v0.0.9

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-3697.json"