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1 vulnerability by D2iQ, Inc.
CVE-2017-20198 (GCVE-0-2017-20198)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-23 13:50 – Updated: 2025-07-23 14:51
VLAI?
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.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-732 - Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Assigner
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Impacted products
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| D2iQ, Inc. | DC/OS Marathon |
Affected:
* , < 1.9.0
(custom)
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Credits
Erik Daguerre
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