CVE-2025-62725

Description

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.

References

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/30/docker_compose_desktop_flaws/

https://github.com/docker/compose/security/advisories/GHSA-gv8h-7v7w-r22q

https://github.com/docker/compose/commit/69bcb962bfb2ea53b41aa925333d356b577d6176

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

CVSS v4

EPSS

Vulnerability Watch

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Vulnerability Being Monitored