CVE-2025-15558
EPSS 0.02%Docker Desktop Docker Plugins Uncontrolled Search Path Element Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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/[email protected]+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 packages (6)
- Bitnami/docker-clifrom 0, < 29.2.1
- Go/github.com/docker/cli>= 19.03.0, < 29.2.0
- Go/github.com/docker/clifrom 0, < 29.2.0+incompatible
- Go/github.com/docker/composefrom 0
- Go/github.com/docker/compose/v2>= 2.31.0
- Go/github.com/docker/compose/v5from 0, < 5.1.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
References (10)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-15558
- PATCHhttps://github.com/docker/cli
- WEBhttps://docs.docker.com/desktop/release-notes
- WEBhttps://docs.docker.com/desktop/release-notes/
- WEBhttps://github.com/docker/cli/commit/13759330b1f7e7cb0d67047ea42c5482548ba7fa
- WEBhttps://github.com/docker/cli/pull/6713
- WEBhttps://github.com/docker/cli/security/advisories/GHSA-p436-gjf2-799p
- WEBhttps://github.com/docker/compose/pull/12300
- WEBhttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-CAN-28304
- WEBhttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-CAN-28304/