{"cve":"CVE-2016-8649","nvd":{"published":"2017-05-01T06:59:00.157","modified":"2026-06-17T00:54:44.587","status":"Modified","description":"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 openat() family of syscalls.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.0","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":9.1},"cwes":["CWE-264"],"references":["http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94498","https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845465","https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1639345","https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1398242","https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/81f466d05f2a89cb4f122ef7f593ff3f279b165c"],"products":["linuxcontainers:lxc"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T20:42:28.077359912+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2016-8649","score":0.02813,"percentile":0.86532,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}