CVE-2018-20699

N/A
Published: January 12, 2019 at 02:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:53 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsEnterprise Linux ServerEngine

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

Docker Engine before 18.09 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (dockerd memory consumption) via a large integer in a --cpuset-mems or --cpuset-cpus value, related to daemon/daemon_unix.go, pkg/parsers/parsers.go, and pkg/sysinfo/sysinfo.go.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 18.09
Affected range stops below 18.09, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (3)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0487
x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/docker/engine/pull/70
x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/37967

CVSS

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-400

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