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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-16398

In Twistlock AuthZ Broker 0.1, regular expressions are mishandled, as demonstrated by containers/aa/pause?aaa=\/start to bypass a policy in which "docker start" is allowed but "docker pause" is not allowed.

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31 Oct 2026, 09:38 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2018-16398

core-osv · Original source

Published 3 Sept 2018, 19:29 UTC

In Twistlock AuthZ Broker 0.1, regular expressions are mishandled, as demonstrated by containers/aa/pause?aaa=\/start to bypass a policy in which "docker start" is allowed but "docker pause" is not allowed.

osv:CVE-2018-16398
Complete source record
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      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:46:51.328552525Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/twistlock/authz/issues/50",
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