CVE-2015-1335
lxc-start in lxc before 1.0.8 and 1.1.x before 1.1.4 allows local container administrators to escape AppArmor confinement via a symlink attack on a (1) mount target or (2) bind mount source.
02 Description
lxc-start in lxc before 1.0.8 and 1.1.x before 1.1.4 allows local container administrators to escape AppArmor confinement via a symlink attack on a (1) mount target or (2) bind mount source.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.45% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 39.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2015-10-01 20:00Z11 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 04:40Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2015-01-22
- Assigning CNA
- canonical
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 7a3c14ebe1a5eb7678680789c1ff240a67e6d43248d19770b2826889b769526e
05 Affected products
06 References
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2015-9f8f4b182ahttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/170045.html
- lists.linuxcontainers.org[lxc-devel] 20150929 LXC security issue - affects all supported releaseshttps://lists.linuxcontainers.org/pipermail/lxc-devel/2015-September/012434.html
- www.debian.orgDSA-3400http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3400
- bugs.launchpad.nethttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1476662
- www.oracle.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- www.securityfocus.com76894http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76894
- github.comhttps://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/592fd47a6245508b79fe6ac819fe6d3b2c1289be
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20150929 Security issue in LXC (CVE-2015-1335)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/29/4
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-2753-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2753-1
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2015-211974138fhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171358.html
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2015-ebfe46536fhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171364.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2015:1717http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00023.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2019:1481http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00073.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- lxc Fixed in 1:1.0.8-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- lxc Fixed in 1:1.0.8-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- lxc Fixed in 1:1.0.8-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- lxc Fixed in 1.0.7-0ubuntu0.5
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.