BIT-docker-cli-2025-15558
See a problem?- Import Source
- https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/docker-cli/BIT-docker-cli-2025-15558.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/BIT-docker-cli-2025-15558
- Aliases
-
- CVE-2025-15558
- GHSA-p436-gjf2-799p
- Published
- 2026-03-10T08:37:19.024Z
- Modified
- 2026-03-10T09:25:56.790397Z
- Summary
- Docker Desktop Docker Plugins Uncontrolled Search Path Element Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
- Details
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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.
- Database specific
{ "severity": "High", "cpes": [ "cpe:2.3:a:docker:command_line_interface:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*" ] }- References
Affected packages
Bitnami / docker-cli
Package
- Name
- docker-cli
- Purl
- pkg:bitnami/docker-cli
Severity
- 7.0 (High) CVSS_V4 - 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:N/R:U/V:X/RE:X/U:X CVSS Calculator