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Case File

CVE-2016-8649

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.1 EPSS 2.81% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-05-01 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

AI analysis pending.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

GitHub PoC Links
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CVE
CVE-2016-8649
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.1
EPSS
2.81%

Original NVD Description

lxc-attach in LXC before 1.0.9 and 2.x before 2.0.6 allows an attacker inside of an unprivileged container to use an inherited file descriptor, of the host's /proc, to access the rest of the host's filesystem via the openat() family of syscalls.