CVE-2016-8649

highpriority · track · 37EPSS 0.028 · 86 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

2.81% (86th) EPSS

CVSS 9 · high

Is it mine?

3 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.1

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 8.3–9.1

v2.09highAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 10

v3.09.1criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.3 · impact 6

v3.08.3highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-264USprimary

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a LXC before 1.0.9 and 2.x before 2.0.6≤ LXC before 1.0.9 and 2.x before 2.0.6enisa_euvdEU
linuxcontainers lxc< 1.0.9nvdUScpe:2.3:a:linuxcontainers:lxc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linuxcontainers lxc2.0.0 → 2.0.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:linuxcontainers:lxc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-05-01modified 2026-06-17

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references (18)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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