CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-62725

HighCVSS 8.9
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Very high risk
13.70%

96th percentile - higher than 96% of all known CVEs

Summary

Docker Compose trusts the path information embedded in remote OCI compose artifacts. When a layer includes the annotations com.docker.compose.extends or com.docker.compose.envfile, Compose joins the attacker-supplied value with its local cache directory and writes the file there. An attacker can escape the cache directory and overwrite arbitrary files on the machine running docker compose, even with read-only commands.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can overwrite arbitrary files on the machine running docker compose, potentially leading to privilege escalation or system takeover.

Recommendation

Upgrade to version v2.40.2 or later, which contains the fix.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Docker Compose trusts the path information embedded in remote OCI compose artifacts. When a layer includes the annotations com.docker.compose.extends or com.docker.compose.envfile, Compose joins the attacker‑supplied value from com.docker.compose.file/com.docker.compose.envfile with its local cache directory and writes the file there. This affects any platform or workflow that resolves remote OCI compose artifacts, Docker Desktop, standalone Compose binaries on Linux, CI/CD runners, cloud dev environments is affected. An attacker can escape the cache directory and overwrite arbitrary files on the machine running docker compose, even if the user only runs read‑only commands such as docker compose config or docker compose ps. This issue is fixed in v2.40.2.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS