{"id":"CVE-2025-15558","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-15558","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T06:13:58.016Z","title":"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…","description":"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.\n\nThis 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.\n\nThis issue does not impact non-Windows binaries, and projects not using the plugin-manager code.","published":"2026-03-04T17:16:15.000Z","lastModified":"2026-07-15T02:17:22.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security@docker.com","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":7,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"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/M"},"cwe":["CWE-427"],"affected":["docker/command line interface"],"epss":{"score":0.00501,"percentile":0.42693,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.50%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://docs.docker.com/desktop/release-notes/","tags":["Release Notes"],"source":"security@docker.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/docker/cli/pull/6713","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch"],"source":"security@docker.com"},{"url":"https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-CAN-28304/","tags":["Not Applicable"],"source":"security@docker.com"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-15558","source":"0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2444574","source":"0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c"},{"url":"https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2025/cve-2025-15558.json","source":"0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-15558","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}