High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-16398
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:38 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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