BIT-docker-cli-2025-15558

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BIT-docker-cli-2025-15558

Summary: Docker Desktop Docker Plugins Uncontrolled Search Path Element Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Details: 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.

References: https://docs.docker.com/desktop/release-notes/, https://github.com/docker/cli/pull/6713, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-15558, https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-CAN-28304/, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-15558, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2444574, https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2025/cve-2025-15558.json