CVE-2017-7669: Privilege escalation

June 4, 2017 (updated June 9, 2017)

The LinuxContainerExecutor runs docker commands as root with insufficient input validation. When the docker feature is enabled, authenticated users can run commands as root.

References

seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/394
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1448373
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7669

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