Lxc vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.

Product76 versions
The short answer

Lxc is made by Linuxcontainers. We track 11 published vulnerabilities in it, across 76 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Lxc, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.

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Known exploited

Which Lxc vulnerabilities are being exploited?

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None of Lxc's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Lxc flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 98%

    runc through 1.0-rc6, as used in Docker before 18.09.2 and other products, allows attackers to overwrite the host runc binary (and consequently obtain host root access) by leveraging the ability to execute a command...

    CVSS8.6Published11 Feb 2019
  2. 2.8%

    lxc-attach in LXC before 1.0.9 and 2.x before 2.0.6 allows an attacker inside of an unprivileged container to use an inherited file descriptor, of the host's /proc, to access the rest of the host's filesystem via the...

    CVSS9.1Published1 May 2017
  3. 1.5%

    An issue was discovered in Linux Containers (LXC) before 2016-02-22.

    CVSS8.6Published9 Jan 2017
  4. 1.5%

    In LXC 2.0, many template scripts download code over cleartext HTTP, and omit a digital-signature check, before running it to bootstrap containers.

    CVSS8.1Published10 Feb 2020
  5. 0.7%

    lxc-user-nic in lxc through 5.0.1 is installed setuid root, and may allow local users to infer whether any file exists, even within a protected directory tree, because "Failed to open" often indicates that a file...

    CVSS3.3Published1 Jan 2023
  6. 0.5%

    The lxc-sshd template (templates/lxc-sshd.in) in LXC before 1.0.0.beta2 uses read-write permissions when mounting /sbin/init, which allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the init file.

    CVSS7.2Published14 Feb 2014
  7. 0.5%

    lxc-start in lxc before 1.0.8 and 1.1.x before 1.1.4 allows local container administrators to escape AppArmor confinement via a symlink attack on a (1) mount target or (2) bind mount source.

    CVSS7.2Published1 Oct 2015
  8. 0.5%

    lxclock.c in LXC 1.1.2 and earlier allows local users to create arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /run/lock/lxc/*.

    CVSS4.9Published12 Aug 2015
  9. 0.4%

    attach.c in LXC 1.1.2 and earlier uses the proc filesystem in a container, which allows local container users to escape AppArmor or SELinux confinement by mounting a proc filesystem with a crafted (1) AppArmor...

    CVSS4.6Published12 Aug 2015
  10. 0.3%

    lxc-user-nic when asked to delete a network interface will unconditionally open a user provided path.

    CVSS3.3Published10 Aug 2018
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We track 11 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Lxc, across 76 versions.

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