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CVE-2015-3627

CVE Details

Visit the official vulnerability details page for CVE-2015-3627 to learn more.

Initial Publication

10/10/2025

Last Update

10/14/2025

Third Party Dependency

github.com/docker/docker

NIST CVE Summary

Libcontainer and Docker Engine before 1.6.1 opens the file-descriptor passed to the pid-1 process before performing the chroot, which allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack in an image.

CVE Severity

7.2

Our Official Summary

This vulnerability is a false positive. Although this is reported by the scanning tools on some of the components, further checks indicate the symbol/function with the vulnerability while present is not being used.

Status

Open

Affected Products & Versions

This CVE is non-impacting as the impacting symbol and/or function is not used in the product

Revision History

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