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I Hacked Play-With-Docker and Remotely Ran Code on the Host

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Re: I Hacked Play-With-Docker and Remotely Ran Code on the Host

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TL/DR: Docker runs "Play with docker" service, and they did not block insmod there, nor did they block access to the boot disk. Wow! To quote the author:

> The reason is quite simple: PWD uses a privileged container

This is such an obvious failure that I wonder how it could even get into production.

Re: I Hacked Play-With-Docker and Remotely Ran Code on the Host

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post #2

TL/DR: Docker runs "Play with docker" service, and they did not block insmod there, nor did they block access to the boot disk. Wow! To quote the author: > The reason is quite simple: PWD uses a privileged container This is such an obvious failure that I wonder how it could even get into production.

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Re: I Hacked Play-With-Docker and Remotely Ran Code on the Host

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post #2

TL/DR: Docker runs "Play with docker" service, and they did not block insmod there, nor did they block access to the boot disk. Wow! To quote the author: > The reason is quite simple: PWD uses a privileged container This is such an obvious failure that I wonder how it could even get into production.

They probably wanted to support docker in docker.