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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2016-8867

Docker Engine 1.12.2 enabled ambient capabilities with misconfigured capability policies. This allowed malicious images to bypass user permissions to access files within the container filesystem or mounted volumes.

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CVE-2016-8867
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1 Nov 2026, 04:32 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2016-8867

core-osv · Original source

Published 28 Oct 2016, 15:59 UTC

Docker Engine 1.12.2 enabled ambient capabilities with misconfigured capability policies. This allowed malicious images to bypass user permissions to access files within the container filesystem or mounted volumes.

osv:CVE-2016-8867
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-8867",
  "method": "structured",
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    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-8867",
    "products": [],
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
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  "published_at": "2016-10-28T15:59:14.047+00:00"
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