CVE-2025-15558: Docker Desktop Docker Plugins Uncontrolled Search Path Element Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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CVE-2025-15558 key facts
- CISA KEV
- Not listed (catalog checked )
- Highest advisory severity
- High
- CVSS base score
- 7.3 (Red Hat), 7 (Docker)
- Weakness
- CWE-427
- VulniPulse record
- Published · Updated
Scores, vectors, weaknesses and fixed releases are quoted from vendor advisories that cover only CVE-2025-15558; bulletin-wide values are not repeated here.
Is CVE-2025-15558 exploited?
No exploitation is reported in the sources VulniPulse tracks: CVE-2025-15558 is not in the CISA KEV catalog (checked ) and no tracked advisory for it reports exploitation. That is not proof the vulnerability cannot be exploited.
How do I fix CVE-2025-15558?
- Red Hat rates this important; a fix erratum may not be out yet — apply the RHSA as soon as it publishes. (Red Hat)
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Vendor advisory comparison
Docker
1 advisory- Advisory severityHigh7.0
High [CVE-2025-15558] Docker Desktop Docker Plugins Uncontrolled Search Path Element Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
CVE-2025-15558Source published Source updated
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 package, such as Docker Compose. This issue does not impact non-Windows binaries, and projects not using the plugin-manager code.
- Affected products in this advisory
- Docker CLI
- Source-reported affected versions
- through 29.1.5
- Source-reported fixed versions
- No fixed-version detail extracted. This does not mean no fix exists.
- Mitigation guidance
- No mitigation guidance extracted; consult the source.
Red Hat
1 advisory- Advisory severityHigh7.3
High [CVE-2025-15558] Docker CLI for Windows: Privilege escalation via malicious plugin binaries
CVE-2025-15558Source published
Docker CLI for Windows: Privilege escalation via malicious plugin binaries. Red Hat rates this important (CVSS 7.3). Weakness: CWE-427. No fix erratum has been published yet; monitor the Red Hat CVE page and apply the RHSA when released.
- Related products — impact not confirmed
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Source-reported affected versions
- Affected-version details not available in this record.
- Source-reported fixed versions
- No fixed-version detail extracted. This does not mean no fix exists.
- Mitigation guidance
- Red Hat rates this important; a fix erratum may not be out yet — apply the RHSA as soon as it publishes.
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- CVE-2026-121522Nov 3, 2026In BuildKit versions v0.26.0 through v0.34.1, a specific build definition that resolves
- CVE-2026-121541Nov 3, 2026In Docker Buildx versions v0.19.0 through v0.38.0, an untrusted Bake definition
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