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CVE-2016-8649
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.1
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-05-01T06:59:00.157 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:54:44.587

Summary

lxc-attach in LXC before 1.0.9 and 2.x before 2.0.6 allows an attacker inside of an unprivileged container to use an inherited file descriptor, of the host's /proc, to access the rest of the host's filesystem via the openat() family of syscalls.

Affected products

linuxcontainers — lxc

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References

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