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CVE-2017-20198 (GCVE-0-2017-20198)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-23 13:50 – Updated: 2025-07-23 14:51
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Summary
The Marathon UI in DC/OS < 1.9.0 allows unauthenticated users to deploy arbitrary Docker containers. Due to improper restriction of volume mount configurations, attackers can deploy a container that mounts the host's root filesystem (/) with read/write privileges. When using a malicious Docker image, the attacker can write to /etc/cron.d/ on the host, achieving arbitrary code execution with root privileges. This impacts any system where the Docker daemon honors Marathon container configurations without policy enforcement.
CWE
  • CWE-732 - Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Assigner
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
D2iQ, Inc. DC/OS Marathon Affected: * , < 1.9.0 (custom)
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Credits
Erik Daguerre
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