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CVE-2016-8867

Red Hat Security Advisory: docker security update

7.5 HighFix available

Docker Engine 1.12.2 enabled ambient capabilities with misconfigured capability policies. This allowed malicious images to bypass user permissions to access files within the container filesystem or mounted volumes.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

Exploit likelihood

2.75%Up 1.8 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 7.5

Docker Engine 1.12.2 enabled ambient capabilities with misconfigured capability policies. This allowed malicious images to bypass user permissions to access files within the container filesystem or mounted volumes.

Record
CVE-2016-8867
CVSS 3.0
7.5 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0
5.0 MediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weakness
CWE-264
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

Docker Engine 1.12.2 enabled ambient capabilities with misconfigured capability policies. This allowed malicious images to bypass user permissions to access files within the container filesystem or mounted volumes.

Record
CVE-2016-8867
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2016-9692 No score

Docker Engine 1.12.2 enabled ambient capabilities with misconfigured capability policies. This allowed malicious images to bypass user permissions to access files within the container filesystem or mounted volumes.

Record
EUVD-2016-9692
Updated
2026-11-03
OSV 7.5

Docker Engine 1.12.2 enabled ambient capabilities with misconfigured capability policies. This allowed malicious images to bypass user permissions to access files within the container filesystem or mounted volumes.

Record
CVE-2016-8867
CVSS 3.0
7.5 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVRHSA-2020:2653 8.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: docker security update

Record
RHSA-2020:2653
CVSS 3.1
8.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:10532-1 No score

docker-1.12.3-4.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the docker-1.12.3-4.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:10532-1
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVopenSUSE-SU-2025:15589-1 No score

docker-stable-24.0.9_ce-15.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the docker-stable-24.0.9_ce-15.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2025:15589-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2016:3084-1 No score

Security update for Docker and dependencies

This update for Docker and its dependencies fixes the following issues:

  • fix runc and containerd revisions (bsc#1009961)

docker:

  • Updates version 1.11.2 to 1.12.3 (bsc#1004490, bsc#996015, bsc#995058)
  • Fix ambient capability usage in containers (bsc#1007249, CVE-2016-8867)
  • Change the internal mountpoint name to not use ':' as that character can be considered a special character by other tools. (bsc#999582)
  • Add dockerd(8) man page.
  • Package docker-proxy (which was split out of the docker binary in 1.12). (bsc#995620)
  • Docker 'migrator' prevents installing 'docker', if docker 1.9 was installed before but there were no images. (bsc#995102)
  • Specify an 'OCI' runtime for our runc package explicitly. (bsc#978260)
  • Use gcc6-go instead of gcc5-go (bsc#988408)

For a detailed description of all fixes and improvements, please refer to:

https://github.com/docker/docker/releases/tag/v1.12.3 https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/v1.12.2/CHANGELOG.md https://github.com/docker/docker/releases/tag/v1.12.1 https://github.com/docker/docker/releases/tag/v1.12.0

containerd:

  • Update to current version required from Docker 1.12.3.
  • Add missing Requires(post): %fillup_prereq. (bsc#1006368)
  • Use gcc6-go instead of gcc5-go. (bsc#988408)

runc:

  • Update to current version required from Docker 1.12.3.
  • Use gcc6-go instead of gcc5-go. (bsc#988408)

rubygem-excon:

  • Updates version from 0.39.6 to 0.52.0.

For a detailed description of all fixes and improvements, please refer to the installed changelog.txt.

rubygem-docker-api:

  • Updated version from 1.17.0 to 1.31.0.
Record
SUSE-SU-2016:3084-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2025:03540-1 No score

Security update for docker-stable

This update for docker-stable fixes the following issues:

  • Include historical changelog data from before the docker-stable fork. The initial changelog entry did technically provide all the necessary information, but our CVE tracking tools do not understand how the package is forked and so it seems that this package does not include fixes for ~12 years of updates. So, include a copy of the original package's changelog up until the fork point. (bsc#1250596)

  • Remove git-core recommends on SLE. Most SLE systems have installRecommends=yes by default and thus end up installing git with Docker. bsc#1250508

    This feature is mostly intended for developers ('docker build git://') so most users already have the dependency installed, and the error when git is missing is fairly straightforward (so they can easily figure out what they need to install).

  • Backport https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/48517. bsc#1247362

  • Update to docker-buildx v0.25.0. Upstream changelog: https://github.com/docker/buildx/releases/tag/v0.25.0

  • Do not try to inject SUSEConnect secrets when in Rootless Docker mode, as Docker does not have permission to access the host zypper credentials in this mode (and unprivileged users cannot disable the feature using /etc/docker/suse-secrets-enable.) bsc#1240150

  • Initial docker-stable fork, forked from Docker 24.0.7-ce release (packaged on 2024-02-14). The original changelog is included below for historical reference.

Record
SUSE-SU-2025:03540-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2025:03545-1 No score

Security update for docker-stable

This update for docker-stable fixes the following issues:

Note this update contains a already fixed references mostly.

  • Remove git-core recommends on SLE to avoid pulling it in unnecessary. (bsc#1250508)

    This feature is mostly intended for developers ('docker build git://') so most users already have the dependency installed, and the error when git is missing is fairly straightforward (so they can easily figure out what they need to install).

  • Include historical changelog data from before the docker-stable fork. The initial changelog entry did technically provide all the necessary information, but our CVE tracking tools do not understand how the package is forked and so it seems that this package does not include fixes for ~12 years of updates. So, include a copy of the original package's changelog up until the fork point. bsc#1250596

  • Update to docker-buildx v0.25.0. Upstream changelog: https://github.com/docker/buildx/releases/tag/v0.25.0

  • Update to Go 1.23 for building now that upstream has switched their 23.0.x LTSS to use Go 1.23.

  • Do not try to inject SUSEConnect secrets when in Rootless Docker mode, as Docker does not have permission to access the host zypper credentials in this mode (and unprivileged users cannot disable the feature using /etc/docker/suse-secrets-enable.) bsc#1240150

  • Initial docker-stable fork, forked from Docker 24.0.7-ce release (packaged on 2024-02-14). The original changelog is included below for historical reference.

Record
SUSE-SU-2025:03545-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
docker
Red Hat:rhel_extras_other:7
before 2:1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8
2:1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8
docker-client
Red Hat:rhel_extras_other:7
before 2:1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8
2:1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8
docker-common
Red Hat:rhel_extras_other:7
before 2:1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8
2:1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8
docker-debuginfo
Red Hat:rhel_extras_other:7
before 2:1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8
2:1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8
docker-logrotate
Red Hat:rhel_extras_other:7
before 2:1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8
2:1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8
docker-lvm-plugin
Red Hat:rhel_extras_other:7
before 2:1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8
2:1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8
docker-novolume-plugin
Red Hat:rhel_extras_other:7
before 2:1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8
2:1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8
docker-rhel-push-plugin
Red Hat:rhel_extras_other:7
before 2:1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8
2:1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8
docker-v1.10-migrator
Red Hat:rhel_extras_other:7
before 2:1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8
2:1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8
containerd
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 6
before 0.2.4+gitr565_0366d7e-9.1
0.2.4+gitr565_0366d7e-9.1
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
docker
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 6
before 1.12.3-81.2
1.12.3-81.2
runc
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 6
before 0.1.1+gitr2816_02f8fa7-9.1
0.1.1+gitr2816_02f8fa7-9.1
containerd
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Containers 12
before 0.2.4+gitr565_0366d7e-9.1
0.2.4+gitr565_0366d7e-9.1
docker
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Containers 12
before 1.12.3-81.2
1.12.3-81.2
rubygem-docker-api
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Containers 12
before 1.31.0-11.2
1.31.0-11.2
rubygem-excon
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Containers 12
before 0.52.0-9.1
0.52.0-9.1
runc
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Containers 12
before 0.1.1+gitr2816_02f8fa7-9.1
0.1.1+gitr2816_02f8fa7-9.1
docker-stable
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS
before 24.0.9_ce-1.20.1
24.0.9_ce-1.20.1
docker-stable
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5
before 24.0.9_ce-1.20.1
24.0.9_ce-1.20.1
docker-stable
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Containers 15 SP6
before 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
docker-stable
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Containers 15 SP7
before 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
docker-stable
SUSE:Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS
before 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
docker-stable
SUSE:Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS
before 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
docker-stable
SUSE:Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS
before 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
docker-stable
SUSE:Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-ESPOS
before 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
docker-stable
SUSE:Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-LTSS
before 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
docker-stable
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-LTSS
before 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
docker-stable
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4-LTSS
before 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
docker-stable
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5-LTSS
before 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
docker-stable
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3
before 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
docker-stable
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4
before 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
docker-stable
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5
before 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
docker-stable
SUSE:Enterprise Storage 7.1
before 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
docker-stable
openSUSE:Leap 15.6
before 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
docker
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
before 1.12.3-4.1
1.12.3-4.1
docker-stable
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
before 24.0.9_ce-15.1
24.0.9_ce-15.1

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2016-8867 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) in Docker, published October 28, 2016. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 2.75%, the 86th percentile. Fixed in docker 2:1.13.1-162.git64e9980.el7_8.

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