In Docker through 18.06.1-ce-rc2, the API endpoints behind the 'docker cp' command are vulnerable to a symlink-exchange attack with Directory Traversal, giving attackers arbitrary read-write access to the host filesystem with root privileges, because daemon/archive.go does not do archive operations on a frozen filesystem (or from within a chroot).
Severity
High 7.5
Published
23 May 2019
Last changed
17 Jun 2026
Added to UpHeron
21 Oct 2026
Sources
NVD
Affected software
Software
Affected versions
Docker EngineServers and applications · cpe:a:docker:docker