Privilege Escalation via Deserialization in Docker for Windows

CVE-2018-15514 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

HandleRequestAsync in Docker for Windows before 18.06.0-ce-rc3-win68 (edge) and before 18.06.0-ce-win72 (stable) deserialized requests over the \\.\pipe\dockerBackend named pipe without verifying the validity of the deserialized .NET objects. This would allow a malicious user in the "docker-users" group (who may not otherwise have administrator access) to escalate to administrator privileges.

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