CVE-2025-62725
Docker Compose Vulnerable to Path Traversal via OCI Artifact Layer Annotations in github.com/docker/compose
Description
Docker Compose trusts the path information embedded in remote OCI compose artifacts. When a layer includes the annotations com.docker.compose.extends or com.docker.compose.envfile, Compose joins the attacker‑supplied value from com.docker.compose.file/com.docker.compose.envfile with its local cache directory and writes the file there. This affects any platform or workflow that resolves remote OCI compose artifacts, Docker Desktop, standalone Compose binaries on Linux, CI/CD runners, cloud dev environments is affected. An attacker can escape the cache directory and overwrite arbitrary files on the machine running docker compose, even if the user only runs read‑only commands such as docker compose config or docker compose ps. This issue is fixed in v2.40.2.
How to fix CVE-2025-62725
To remediate CVE-2025-62725, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —no fix listed
- —no fix listed
- —upgrade to 2.40.2 or later
- —upgrade to 2.40.2 or later
Is CVE-2025-62725 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (4)
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- >= 2.34.0, < 2.40.2
- from 0, < 2.40.2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H |