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CVE-2016-3738

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CVE-2016-3738 describes a critical vulnerability in Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.2, where improper access restrictions on STI builds allow authenticated users to access the Docker socket. This flaw enables remote attackers to gain elevated privileges through build-pod related vectors. With a CVSS v3 score of 8.8 (High), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and user privileges, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity community.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift:3.2:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.94%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0194 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 17,829 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.2Fixed in: atomic-openshift-0:3.2.0.44-1.git.0.a4463d9.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.2Fixed in: nodejs-node-uuid-0:1.4.7-1.el7
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-3738Important

origin: pod update allows docker socket access via build-pod

May 19, 2016

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016:1094
Vendor Advisory