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Fencer Vulns
high 7.3

CVE-2025-15558 json

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

published 2026-03-04 8 mo ago modified 2026-09-10 59 d ago also BIT-docker-cli-2025-15558 , EUVD-2025-208275 , GHSA-p436-gjf2-799p , GO-2026-4610

cvss
7.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 46%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/docker/cli 29.2.0, 29.2.0+incompatible
  • bitnami docker-cli 29.2.1
  • go github.com/docker/compose/v5 5.1.0
  • Docker Docker CLI 29.2.0
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 15.6 0.0.20260317T205859-150000.1.152.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:1042-1

  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1
  • teleport openSUSE Tumbleweed 17.7.23-1.1
  • skaffold openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.18.0-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1openSUSE-SU-2026:10684-1openSUSE-SU-2026:10369-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-15558 updated cvss 7.3

docker/cli: Docker CLI for Windows: Privilege escalation via malicious plugin binaries

  • Red Hat Assisted Installer for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 2 assisted/agent-preinstall-image-builder-rhel9 Red Hat Builds for Red Hat OpenShift openshift-builds/openshift-builds-waiters-rhel9, openshift-builds/openshift-builds-webhook-rhel9, openshift-builds/openshift-builds-controller-rhel9, openshift-builds/openshift-builds-git-cloner-rhel9, openshift-builds/openshift-builds-image-bundler-rhel9, openshift-builds/openshift-builds-image-processing-rhel9 Red Hat Gatekeeper 3 gatekeeper/gatekeeper-rhel9 Red Hat Kernel Module Management Operator for Red Hat Openshift kmm/kernel-module-management-worker-rhel9, kmm/kernel-module-management-signing-rhel9, kmm/kernel-module-management-rhel9-operator, kmm/kernel-module-management-operator-bundle, kmm/kernel-module-management-must-gather-rhel9, kmm/kernel-module-management-hub-rhel9-operator, +2 more Red Hat Machine Deletion Remediation Operator workload-availability/machine-deletion-remediation-rhel9-operator, workload-availability/machine-deletion-remediation-operator-bundle Red Hat Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes multicluster-engine/capoa-bootstrap-rhel9, multicluster-engine/capoa-control-plane-rhel9
    +21 more products
    Red Hat Multicluster Global Hub multicluster-globalhub/multicluster-globalhub-grafana-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines openshift-pipelines/pipelines-nop-rhel8, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-opc-rhel9, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-cache-rhel9, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-events-rhel8, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-hub-ui-rhel8, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-cli-tkn-rhel8, +24 more Red Hat OpenShift Serverless openshift-serverless-1/kn-client-kn-rhel9, openshift-serverless-1/kn-serving-controller-rhel9, openshift-serverless-1/kn-plugin-event-sender-rhel9, openshift-serverless-1/kn-plugin-func-func-util-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2 openshift-service-mesh/pilot-rhel8, openshift-service-mesh/proxyv2-rhel9, openshift-service-mesh/istio-cni-rhel8, openshift-service-mesh/istio-rhel8-operator Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3 openshift-service-mesh/istio-cni-rhel9, openshift-service-mesh/istio-pilot-rhel9, openshift-service-mesh/istio-proxyv2-rhel9, openshift-service-mesh/istio-rhel9-operator Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 rhacm2/submariner-rhel9-operator, rhacm2/submariner-operator-bundle, rhacm2/multicloud-integrations-rhel9, rhacm2/multicluster-operators-channel-rhel9, rhacm2/multicluster-operators-subscription-rhel9 Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4 advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-main-rhel8, advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-roxctl-rhel8, advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-rhel8-operator, advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-scanner-v4-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-model-registry-rhel9, rhoai/odh-data-science-pipelines-argo-argoexec-rhel8, rhoai/odh-data-science-pipelines-argo-argoexec-rhel9, rhoai/odh-data-science-pipelines-argo-workflowcontroller-rhel8, rhoai/odh-data-science-pipelines-argo-workflowcontroller-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/frr-rhel9, openshift4/ose-console, openshift4/metallb-rhel9, openshift4/cnf-tests-rhel9, openshift4/ose-console-rhel9, openshift4/ose-helm-operator, +24 more Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/traefik-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift for Windows Containers openshift4-wincw/windows-machine-config-rhel9-operator, openshift4-wincw/windows-machine-config-operator-bundle Red Hat OpenShift GitOps openshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel8, openshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4 container-native-virtualization/kubevirt-tekton-tasks-create-datavolume-rhel9, container-native-virtualization/kubevirt-tekton-tasks-disk-virt-customize-rhel9 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 rhosp-rhel8/osp-director-agent, rhosp-rhel8/osp-director-operator, rhosp-rhel8/osp-director-downloader, rhosp-rhel8/osp-director-operator-bundle Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 rhosp-rhel9/osp-director-operator-bundle Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0 rhoso-operators/openstack-rhel9-operator, rhoso-operators/openstack-operator-bundle, rhoso-operators/rabbitmq-cluster-rhel9-operator Red Hat Quay 3 quay/clair-rhel8, quay/clair-rhel9 Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer rhtas/cosign-rhel9, rhtas/gitsign-rhel9, rhtas/client-server-rhel9, rhtas/rhtas-console-rhel9, rhtas/rhtas-rhel9-operator, rhtas/rhtas-operator-bundle, +3 more Red Hat Security Profiles Operator compliance/openshift-security-profiles-rhel8-operator, compliance/openshift-security-profiles-operator-bundle Red Hat Zero Trust Workload Identity Manager zero-trust-workload-identity-manager/spiffe-spire-agent-rhel9, zero-trust-workload-identity-manager/spiffe-spire-server-rhel9, zero-trust-workload-identity-manager/spiffe-spire-oidc-discovery-provider-rhel9 Red Hat Zero Trust Workload Identity Manager - Tech Preview zero-trust-workload-identity-manager/spiffe-spire-agent-rhel9, zero-trust-workload-identity-manager/spiffe-spire-server-rhel9, zero-trust-workload-identity-manager/spiffe-spire-oidc-discovery-provider-rhel9, zero-trust-workload-identity-manager/zero-trust-workload-identity-manager-rhel9, zero-trust-workload-identity-manager/zero-trust-workload-identity-manager-operator-bundle
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
8 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 46% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 7.0 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/AU:N/R:U
CISA ADP 3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 4.0 7.0 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
NVD 3.1 8.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/docker/cli
>=19.03.0, <29.2.0
<29.2.0+incompatible
29.2.0
29.2.0+incompatible
bitnami docker-cli
<29.2.1
29.2.1
go github.com/docker/compose
all versions
 no fix listed
go github.com/docker/compose/v2
>=2.31.0
 no fix listed
go github.com/docker/compose/v5
<5.1.0
5.1.0

Affected products

  • Docker Docker CLI
  • Docker Compose
  • Red Hat Assisted Installer for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 2
  • Red Hat Builds for Red Hat OpenShift
  • Red Hat Gatekeeper 3
  • Red Hat Kernel Module Management Operator for Red Hat Openshift
  • Red Hat Machine Deletion Remediation Operator
  • Red Hat Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes
  • Red Hat Multicluster Global Hub
  • Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines
  • Red Hat OpenShift Serverless
  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2
  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI)
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift for Windows Containers
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift GitOps
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3
  • Red Hat Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer
  • Red Hat Security Profiles Operator
  • Red Hat Zero Trust Workload Identity Manager
  • Red Hat Zero Trust Workload Identity Manager - Tech Preview

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

The maintainers of docker/cli published their own advisory on GitHub. Reviewed sources take precedence over it.