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GHSA-4XCQ-3FJF-XFQW

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-08-20 15:31 – Updated: 2025-09-25 18:30

Details

A vulnerability was identified in Docker Desktop that allows local running Linux containers to access the Docker Engine API via the configured Docker subnet, at 192.168.65.7:2375 by default. This vulnerability occurs with or without Enhanced Container Isolation (ECI) enabled, and with or without the "Expose daemon on tcp://localhost:2375 without TLS" option enabled. This can lead to execution of a wide range of privileged commands to the engine API, including controlling other containers, creating new ones, managing images etc. In some circumstances (e.g. Docker Desktop for Windows with WSL backend) it also allows mounting the host drive with the same privileges as the user running Docker Desktop.

Severity ?

9.3 (Critical)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

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CVE-2025-9074 (GCVE-0-2025-9074)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-20 13:28 – Updated: 2025-09-25 16:43

Summary

Severity ?

9.3 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

CWE

CWE-668 - Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

Assigner

Docker

References

URL

Tags

https://docs.docker.com/desktop/release-notes/#4443

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Docker	Docker Desktop	Affected: 4.25 , < 4.44.3 (semver)

Credits

Felix Boulet zer0x64 (Philippe Dugre)

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Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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