High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-8867
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:32 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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