CVE-2025-155587.3HighCWE-427

CVE-2025-15558: Docker Desktop Docker Plugins Uncontrolled Search Path Element Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Docker · Docker CLI

Vendor fix available · Affected: Docker CLI · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)

Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.

0.6%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days

46th percentile

050100

Higher than 46% of scored CVEs

7.3HighCVSS 3.1

LowMediumHighCrit.

DescriptionCVE.org

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.

Affected products2

From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.

Docker · Docker CLIVersions not stated
Docker · ComposeVersions not stated

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Exploitation: Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
CISA KEV: Not listed
Public check: No public nuclei template
Weakness: Uncontrolled Search Path · File and Path Handling
Vendor: Docker
Published: March 2026
Band: Unlikely (under 1%), March 2026

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