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2 vulnerabilities found for Docker CLI by Docker
CVE-2025-15558 (GCVE-0-2025-15558)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2026-03-04 16:14 – Updated: 2026-03-05 04:55
VLAI?
Title
Docker Desktop Docker Plugins Uncontrolled Search Path Element Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Summary
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.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
| URL | Tags | |
|---|---|---|
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Docker | Docker CLI |
Unaffected:
29.2.0
(semver)
|
||
Credits
Nitesh Surana (niteshsurana.com) of Trend Research of TrendAI
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CVE-2025-15558 (GCVE-0-2025-15558)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-04 16:14 – Updated: 2026-03-05 04:55
VLAI?
Title
Docker Desktop Docker Plugins Uncontrolled Search Path Element Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Summary
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.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
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|---|---|---|
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Docker | Docker CLI |
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Nitesh Surana (niteshsurana.com) of Trend Research of TrendAI
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