CVE-2018-6556: LXC · agentprime

The lxc-user-nic component of LXC allows unprivileged users to open arbitrary files

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0035 · 28th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: canonical) at 10 Aug 2018, 15:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Not given	LXC	affected 2.0.9 to before 2.0* custom affected 3.0.0 to before 3.0* custom

Identifiers

CVE-2018-6556

CNA

canonical

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0035, the 28th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 10 Aug 2018. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3730-1 vendor-advisoryubuntu
bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1783591 confirm
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201808-02 vendor-advisorygentoo
bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=988348 confirm
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00074.html vendor-advisorysuse
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00076.html vendor-advisorysuse
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00091.html vendor-advisorysuse
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00073.html vendor-advisorysuse

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.