Vulnerabilites related to D2iQ, Inc. - DC/OS Marathon
CVE-2017-20198 (GCVE-0-2017-20198)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-23 13:50
Modified
2025-07-23 14:51
CWE
  • CWE-732 - Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Summary
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 host's 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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
D2iQ, Inc. DC/OS Marathon Version: *   < 1.9.0
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