CVE-2018-20699

4.9 mediumEPSS 2.2%

Medium (4.9). EPSS 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Docker Engine before 18.09 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (dockerd memory consumption) via a large integer in a --cpuset-mems or --cpuset-cpus value, related to daemon/daemon_unix.go, pkg/parsers/parsers.go, and pkg/sysinfo/sysinfo.go.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

4.9 medium

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 82% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-400
Published: 2019-01-12
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

docker:engine
redhat:enterprise_linux_server

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0487
https://github.com/docker/engine/pull/70
https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/37967
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0487
https://github.com/docker/engine/pull/70

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