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CVE-2014-3499

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-3499 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in Docker 1.0.0, affecting Docker and Fedora distributions. The flaw stems from world-readable and world-writable permissions on the Docker management socket, enabling local users to gain elevated privileges through unspecified means. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (High), this vulnerability poses a significant risk due to its low attack complexity and complete impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:docker:docker:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
19CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:19:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.2HIGH

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
31.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0039 is in the 42nd percentile among its peer group of 3,241 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.5 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/docker/dockerFixed in: 1.0.1
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ExtrasFixed in: docker-0:0.11.1-22.el7
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

goGHSA-wxj3-qwv4-cvfmhigh

Privilege Escalation in Docker

Feb 15, 2022
redhatCVE-2014-3499Important

docker: systemd socket activation results in privilege escalation

Jul 1, 2014

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0820.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi