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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.0 High

CVE-2025-15558

Docker Desktop Docker Plugins Uncontrolled Search Path Element Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
Docker

Description

Docker CLI for Windows searches for plugin binaries in C:\ProgramData\Docker\cli-plugins, a directory that does not exist by default. A low-privileged attacker can create this directory and place malicious CLI plugin binaries (docker-compose.exe, docker-buildx.exe, etc.) that are executed when a victim user opens Docker Desktop or invokes Docker CLI plugin features, and allow privilege-escalation if the docker CLI is executed as a privileged user. This issue affects Docker CLI: through 29.1.5 and Windows binaries acting as a CLI-plugin manager using the github.com/docker/cli/cli-plugins/manager https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/docker/cli@v29.1.5+incompatible/cli-plugins/manager  package, such as Docker Compose. This issue does not impact non-Windows binaries, and projects not using the plugin-manager code.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Docker Docker CLI

Default version status: affected

  • 29.2.0unaffected

Docker Compose

Default version status: unaffected

  • 5.1.0unaffected

References