Security Advisory

CVE-2017-20198

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-07-23 13:50:52
Last updated 2026-05-15 11:14:26
Assigner VulnCheck
State PUBLISHED

Description

The Marathon UI in DC/OS < 1.9.0 allows unauthenticated users to deploy arbitrary Docker containers. Due to improper restriction of volume mount configurations, attackers can deploy a container that mounts the hosts root filesystem (/) with read/write privileges. When using a malicious Docker image, the attacker can write to /etc/cron.d/ on the host, achieving arbitrary code execution with root privileges. This impacts any system where the Docker daemon honors Marathon container configurations without policy enforcement.