{"id":"CVE-2025-15558","aliases":["BIT-docker-cli-2025-15558","GHSA-p436-gjf2-799p","GO-2026-4610"],"url":"https://o3.security/vulnerability/CVE-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.\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":"2026-03-04T16:14:32.045Z","modified":"2026-08-12T03:51:38.820510472Z","cvss":null,"epss":{"score":0.00472,"percentile":0.38669,"asOf":"2026-08-24"},"cisaKev":null,"exploitsKnown":0,"affectedPackages":[{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/docker/cli","fixedVersion":"29.2.0"}],"fix":{"url":"https://github.com/docker/cli/pull/6713","label":"docker/cli#6713"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://docs.docker.com/desktop/release-notes/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2025/cve-2025-15558.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-15558"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/15xxx/CVE-2025-15558.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-15558"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-CAN-28304/"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2444574"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/docker/cli/pull/6713"}],"provenance":{"sources":["OSV.dev","FIRST.org (EPSS)"],"lastVerified":"2026-08-12T03:51:38.820510472Z"}}