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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2016-8867 json

Docker Engine 1.12.2 enabled ambient capabilities with misconfigured capability policies.

published 2016-10-28 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-9692

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.8%
EPSS 2.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 86%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Docker Engine 1.12.2 enabled ambient capabilities with misconfigured capability policies. This allowed malicious images to bypass user permissions to access files within the container filesystem or mounted volumes.

Patch / fix

  • docker RHEL 7 EXTRAS_OTHER 2:1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8
  • docker-client RHEL 7 EXTRAS_OTHER 2:1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8
  • docker-common RHEL 7 EXTRAS_OTHER 2:1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8
  • docker-logrotate RHEL 7 EXTRAS_OTHER 2:1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8
  • docker-lvm-plugin RHEL 7 EXTRAS_OTHER 2:1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8
  • docker-v1.10-migrator RHEL 7 EXTRAS_OTHER 2:1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8
  • docker-novolume-plugin RHEL 7 EXTRAS_OTHER 2:1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8
  • docker-rhel-push-plugin RHEL 7 EXTRAS_OTHER 2:1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:2653

  • docker-stable SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES for SAP 15 SP3 +12 more 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
  • runc SLE Module for Containers 12, OpenStack Cloud 6 0.1.1+gitr2816_02f8fa7-9.1
  • docker SLE Module for Containers 12, OpenStack Cloud 6 1.12.3-81.2
  • containerd SLE Module for Containers 12, OpenStack Cloud 6 0.2.4+gitr565_0366d7e-9.1
  • rubygem-excon SLE Module for Containers 12 0.52.0-9.1
  • rubygem-docker-api SLE Module for Containers 12 1.31.0-11.2
  • docker-stable SLES LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5-LTSS 24.0.9_ce-1.20.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:03545-1SUSE-SU-2025:03540-1SUSE-SU-2016:3084-1

  • docker-stable openSUSE Tumbleweed 24.0.9_ce-15.1
  • docker openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.12.3-4.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:15589-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10532-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-8867 updated cvss 7.5

docker: Ambient capability usage in containers

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras docker 1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8, docker-client 1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8, docker-common 1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8, docker-logrotate 1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8, docker-lvm-plugin 1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8, docker-v1.10-migrator 1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8, +2 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:2653

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.75% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
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References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.