Docker Desktop vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-8696 [CRITICAL] CWE-79 CVE-2024-8696: A remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability via crafted extension publisher-url/additional-urls coul A remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability via crafted extension publisher-url/additional-urls could be abused by a malicious extension in Docker Desktop before 4.34.2.

CVE-2024-8695 [CRITICAL] CWE-79 CVE-2024-8695: A remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability via crafted extension description/changelog could be abu A remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability via crafted extension description/changelog could be abused by a malicious extension in Docker Desktop before 4.34.2.

CVE-2025-3224 [HIGH] CWE-59 CVE-2025-3224: A vulnerability in the update process of Docker Desktop for Windows versions prior to 4.41.0 could a A vulnerability in the update process of Docker Desktop for Windows versions prior to 4.41.0 could allow a local, low-privileged attacker to escalate privileges to SYSTEM. During an update, Docker Desktop attempts to delete files and subdirectories under the path C:\ProgramData\Docker\config with high privileges. However, this directory often does not ex

CVE-2021-37841 [HIGH] CWE-732 CVE-2021-37841: Docker Desktop before 3.6.0 suffers from incorrect access control. If a low-privileged account is ab Docker Desktop before 3.6.0 suffers from incorrect access control. If a low-privileged account is able to access the server running the Windows containers, it can lead to a full container compromise in both process isolation and Hyper-V isolation modes. This security issue leads an attacker with low privilege to read, write and possibly even execute c

CVE-2026-2664 [HIGH] CWE-125 CVE-2026-2664: An out of bounds read vulnerability in the grpcfuse kernel module present in the Linux VM in Docker An out of bounds read vulnerability in the grpcfuse kernel module present in the Linux VM in Docker Desktop for Windows, Linux and macOS up to version 4.61.0 could allow a local attacker to cause an unspecified impact by writing to /proc/docker entries. The issue has been fixed in Docker Desktop 4.62.0 .

CVE-2023-1802 [HIGH] CWE-319 CVE-2023-1802: In Docker Desktop 4.17.x the Artifactory Integration falls back to sending registry credentials over In Docker Desktop 4.17.x the Artifactory Integration falls back to sending registry credentials over plain HTTP if the HTTPS health check has failed. A targeted network sniffing attack can lead to a disclosure of sensitive information. Only users who have Access Experimental Features enabled and have logged in to a private registry are affected.

CVE-2022-37326 [HIGH] CWE-863 CVE-2022-37326: Docker Desktop for Windows before 4.6.0 allows attackers to delete (or create) any file through the Docker Desktop for Windows before 4.6.0 allows attackers to delete (or create) any file through the dockerBackendV2 windowscontainers/start API by controlling the pidfile field inside the DaemonJSON field in the WindowsContainerStartRequest class. This can indirectly lead to privilege escalation.

CVE-2020-10665 [MEDIUM] CWE-59 CVE-2020-10665: Docker Desktop allows local privilege escalation to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM because it mishandles the co Docker Desktop allows local privilege escalation to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM because it mishandles the collection of diagnostics with Administrator privileges, leading to arbitrary DACL permissions overwrites and arbitrary file writes. This affects Docker Desktop Enterprise before 2.1.0.9, Docker Desktop for Windows Stable before 2.2.0.4, and Docker Deskt

CVE-2024-6222 [HIGH] CWE-923 CVE-2024-6222: In Docker Desktop before v4.29.0, an attacker who has gained access to the Docker Desktop VM through In Docker Desktop before v4.29.0, an attacker who has gained access to the Docker Desktop VM through a container breakout can further escape to the host by passing extensions and dashboard related IPC messages. Docker Desktop v4.29.0 https://docs.docker.com/desktop/release-notes/#4290 fixes the issue on MacOS, Linux and Windows with Hyper-V backend. A

CVE-2022-38730 [MEDIUM] CWE-59 CVE-2022-38730: Docker Desktop for Windows before 4.6 allows attackers to overwrite any file through the windowscont Docker Desktop for Windows before 4.6 allows attackers to overwrite any file through the windowscontainers/start dockerBackendV2 API by controlling the data-root field inside the DaemonJSON field in the WindowsContainerStartRequest class. This allows exploiting a symlink vulnerability in ..\dataRoot\network\files\local-kv.db because of a TOCTOU race

CVE-2022-31647 [HIGH] CWE-59 CVE-2022-31647: Docker Desktop before 4.6.0 on Windows allows attackers to delete any file through the hyperv/destro Docker Desktop before 4.6.0 on Windows allows attackers to delete any file through the hyperv/destroy dockerBackendV2 API via a symlink in the DataFolder parameter, a different vulnerability than CVE-2022-26659.

CVE-2022-34292 [HIGH] CVE-2022-34292: Docker Desktop for Windows before 4.6.0 allows attackers to overwrite any file through a symlink att Docker Desktop for Windows before 4.6.0 allows attackers to overwrite any file through a symlink attack on the hyperv/create dockerBackendV2 API by controlling the DataFolder parameter for DockerDesktop.vhdx, a similar issue to CVE-2022-31647.

CVE-2024-5652 [MEDIUM] CWE-400 CVE-2024-5652: In Docker Desktop on Windows before v4.31.0 allows a user in the docker-users group to cause a Windo In Docker Desktop on Windows before v4.31.0 allows a user in the docker-users group to cause a Windows Denial-of-Service through the exec-path Docker daemon config option in Windows containers mode.