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CVE-2017-16539

Docker Moby /proc/scsi Path Exposure Allows Host Data Loss (SCSI MICDROP)

5.9 MediumFix available

CVE-2017-16539 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.9) in Mobyproject Moby, published November 4, 2017. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.83%, the 78th percentile. Fixed in github.com/moby/moby 17.12.0-ce.

The DefaultLinuxSpec function in oci/defaults.go in Docker Moby through 17.03.2-ce does not block /proc/scsi pathnames, which allows attackers to trigger data loss (when certain older Linux kernels are used) by leveraging Docker container access to write a "scsi remove-single-device" line to /proc/scsi/scsi, aka SCSI MICDROP.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

1.83%Up 0.6 points since Apr 14, 2021
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

CVE List 5.9

The DefaultLinuxSpec function in oci/defaults.go in Docker Moby through 17.03.2-ce does not block /proc/scsi pathnames, which allows attackers to trigger data loss (when certain older Linux kernels are used) by leveraging Docker container access to write a "scsi remove-single-device" line to /proc/scsi/scsi, aka SCSI MICDROP.

Record
CVE-2017-16539
CVSS 3.1
5.9 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-200
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2017-7732 5.9

The DefaultLinuxSpec function in oci/defaults.go in Docker Moby through 17.03.2-ce does not block /proc/scsi pathnames, which allows attackers to trigger data loss (when certain older Linux kernels are used) by leveraging Docker container access to write a "scsi remove-single-device" line to /proc/scsi/scsi, aka SCSI MICDROP.

Record
EUVD-2017-7732
CVSS 3.1
5.9 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-vfjc-2qcw-j95j 5.9

Docker Moby /proc/scsi Path Exposure Allows Host Data Loss (SCSI MICDROP)

The DefaultLinuxSpec function in oci/defaults.go in Docker Moby through 17.03.2-ce does not block /proc/scsi pathnames, which allows attackers to trigger data loss (when certain older Linux kernels are used) by leveraging Docker container access to write a "scsi remove-single-device" line to /proc/scsi/scsi, aka SCSI MICDROP.

Record
GHSA-vfjc-2qcw-j95j
CVSS 3.0
5.9 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-200
Updated
2026-11-02
NVD 5.9

The DefaultLinuxSpec function in oci/defaults.go in Docker Moby through 17.03.2-ce does not block /proc/scsi pathnames, which allows attackers to trigger data loss (when certain older Linux kernels are used) by leveraging Docker container access to write a "scsi remove-single-device" line to /proc/scsi/scsi, aka SCSI MICDROP.

Record
CVE-2017-16539
CVSS 3.1
5.9 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.0
5.9 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0
4.3 MediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness
CWE-200
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 5.9

The DefaultLinuxSpec function in oci/defaults.go in Docker Moby through 17.03.2-ce does not block /proc/scsi pathnames, which allows attackers to trigger data loss (when certain older Linux kernels are used) by leveraging Docker container access to write a "scsi remove-single-device" line to /proc/scsi/scsi, aka SCSI MICDROP.

Record
CVE-2017-16539
CVSS 3.0
5.9 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2017-16539 5.9

The DefaultLinuxSpec function in oci/defaults.go in Docker Moby through 17.03.2-ce does not block /proc/scsi pathnames, which allows attackers to trigger data loss (when certain older Linux kernels are used) by leveraging Docker container access to write a "scsi remove-single-device" line to /proc/scsi/scsi, aka SCSI MICDROP.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2017-16539
CVSS 3.0
5.9 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVGHSA-vfjc-2qcw-j95j 5.9

Docker Moby /proc/scsi Path Exposure Allows Host Data Loss (SCSI MICDROP)

The DefaultLinuxSpec function in oci/defaults.go in Docker Moby through 17.03.2-ce does not block /proc/scsi pathnames, which allows attackers to trigger data loss (when certain older Linux kernels are used) by leveraging Docker container access to write a "scsi remove-single-device" line to /proc/scsi/scsi, aka SCSI MICDROP.

Record
GHSA-vfjc-2qcw-j95j
CVSS 3.0
5.9 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-200
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2017-16539 5.9

The DefaultLinuxSpec function in oci/defaults.go in Docker Moby through 17.03.2-ce does not block /proc/scsi pathnames, which allows attackers to trigger data loss (when certain older Linux kernels are used) by leveraging Docker container access to write a "scsi remove-single-device" line to /proc/scsi/scsi, aka SCSI MICDROP.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16539
CVSS 3.1
5.9 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.0
5.9 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2018-0398 No score

Updated docker packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated docker packages fix security vulnerabilities:

Lack of content verification in docker allowed a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service via a crafted image layer payload, aka gzip bombing (CVE-2017-14992).

The DefaultLinuxSpec function in oci/defaults.go docker did not block /proc/scsi pathnames, which allowed attackers to trigger data loss (when certain older Linux kernels are used) by leveraging Docker container access to write a "scsi remove-single-device" line to /proc/scsi/scsi, aka SCSI MICDROP (CVE-2017-16539).

Container breakout without selinux in enforcing mode (CVE-2018-10892).

The docker package has been updated to version 18.06.1 to fix these issues and other bugs.

Also, the golang package was updated to version 1.11.1 to be able to build the update docker software.

Additionally, the docker-containerd and opencontainers-runc packages have been updated to work with the updated docker package.

Record
MGASA-2018-0398
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:10722-1 No score

docker-20.10.6_ce-2.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the docker-20.10.6_ce-2.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:10722-1
Updated
2026-11-02
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-2018:0386-1 No score

Version update for docker, docker-runc, containerd, golang-github-docker-libnetwork

This update for docker, docker-runc, containerd, golang-github-docker-libnetwork fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2017-16539: The DefaultLinuxSpec function in oci/defaults.go docker did not block /proc/scsi pathnames, which allowed attackers to trigger data loss (when certain older Linux kernels are used) by leveraging Docker container access to write a 'scsi remove-single-device' line to /proc/scsi/scsi, aka SCSI MICDROP (bnc#1066801)

  • CVE-2017-14992: Lack of content verification in docker allowed a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service via a crafted image layer payload, aka gzip bombing. (bnc#1066210)

These non-security issues were fixed:

  • bsc#1059011: The systemd service helper script used a timeout of 60 seconds to start the daemon, which is insufficient in cases where the daemon takes longer to start. Instead, set the service type from 'simple' to 'notify' and remove the now superfluous helper script.
  • bsc#1057743: New requirement with new version of docker-libnetwork.
  • bsc#1032287: Missing docker systemd configuration.
  • bsc#1057743: New 'symbol' for libnetwork requirement.
  • bsc#1057743: Update secrets patch to handle 'old' containers that have orphaned secret data no longer available on the host.
  • bsc#1055676: Update patches to correctly handle volumes and mounts when Docker is running with user namespaces enabled.
  • bsc#1045628:: Add patch to make the dm storage driver remove a container's rootfs mountpoint before attempting to do libdm operations on it. This helps avoid complications when live mounts will leak into containers.
  • bsc#1069758: Upgrade Docker to v17.09.1_ce (and obsolete docker-image-migrator).
  • bsc#1021227: bsc#1029320 bsc#1058173 -- Enable docker devicemapper support for deferred removal/deletion within Containers module.
  • bsc#1046024: Correct interaction between Docker and SuSEFirewall2, to avoid breaking Docker networking after boot.
  • bsc#1048046: Build with -buildmode=pie to make all binaries PIC.
  • bsc#1072798: Remove dependency on obsolete bridge-utils.
  • bsc#1064926: Set --start-timeout=2m by default to match upstream.
  • bsc#1065109, bsc#1053532: Use the upstream makefile so that Docker can get the commit ID in docker info.

Please note that the 'docker-runc' package is just a rename of the old 'runc' package to match that we now ship the Docker fork of runc.

Record
SUSE-SU-2018:0386-1
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
github.com/moby/moby
Go
before 17.12.0-ce
17.12.0-ce
docker.io
Debian:12
before 1.13.1~ds3-1
1.13.1~ds3-1
docker.io
Debian:13
before 1.13.1~ds3-1
1.13.1~ds3-1
docker.io
Debian:14
before 1.13.1~ds3-1
1.13.1~ds3-1
docker
Mageia:6
before 18.06.1-1.mga6
18.06.1-1.mga6
docker-containerd
Mageia:6
before 1.2.0-0.beta.2.2.mga6
1.2.0-0.beta.2.2.mga6
golang
Mageia:6
before 1.11.1-1.mga6
1.11.1-1.mga6
opencontainers-runc
Mageia:6
before 1.0.0rc5-3.mga6
1.0.0rc5-3.mga6
containerd
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 6
before 0.2.9+gitr706_06b9cb351610-16.8.1
0.2.9+gitr706_06b9cb351610-16.8.1
docker
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 6
before 17.09.1_ce-98.8.1
17.09.1_ce-98.8.1
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
docker-runc
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 6
before 1.0.0rc4+gitr3338_3f2f8b84a77f-1.3.1
1.0.0rc4+gitr3338_3f2f8b84a77f-1.3.1
golang-github-docker-libnetwork
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 6
before 0.7.0.1+gitr2066_7b2b1feb1de4-10.1
0.7.0.1+gitr2066_7b2b1feb1de4-10.1
containerd
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Containers 12
before 0.2.9+gitr706_06b9cb351610-16.8.1
0.2.9+gitr706_06b9cb351610-16.8.1
docker
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Containers 12
before 17.09.1_ce-98.8.1
17.09.1_ce-98.8.1
docker-runc
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Containers 12
before 1.0.0rc4+gitr3338_3f2f8b84a77f-1.3.1
1.0.0rc4+gitr3338_3f2f8b84a77f-1.3.1
golang-github-docker-libnetwork
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Containers 12
before 0.7.0.1+gitr2066_7b2b1feb1de4-10.1
0.7.0.1+gitr2066_7b2b1feb1de4-10.1
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.io
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
before 18.06.1-0ubuntu1~16.04.2, plus listed versions
1.6.2~dfsg1-1ubuntu41.10.2-0ubuntu31.10.2-0ubuntu41.10.3-0ubuntu11.10.3-0ubuntu4
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1.10.3-0ubuntu51.10.3-0ubuntu61.11.2-0ubuntu5~16.041.12.1-0ubuntu13~16.04.11.12.3-0ubuntu4~16.04.21.12.6-0ubuntu1~16.04.11.13.1-0ubuntu1~16.04.217.03.2-0ubuntu2~16.04.1
18.06.1-0ubuntu1~16.04.2
docker.io
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS
before 18.06.1-0ubuntu1~18.04.1, plus listed versions
1.13.1-0ubuntu617.03.2-0ubuntu117.03.2-0ubuntu317.03.2-0ubuntu517.12.1-0ubuntu1
18.06.1-0ubuntu1~18.04.1
docker
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
before 20.10.6_ce-2.1
20.10.6_ce-2.1
docker-stable
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
before 24.0.9_ce-15.1
24.0.9_ce-15.1

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