Medium · 6.3 CVE-2022-38730 EUVD-2022-41297GHSA-pmgh-8j9v-4xhf

Docker Desktop for Windows before 4.6 allows attackers to overwrite any file through the windowscontainers/start dockerBackendV2 API by con…

Published Apr 27, 2023 · Updated Jan 31, 2025 · Assigned by mitre

Description

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 condition.

References

https://docs.docker.com/desktop/release-notes/#docker-desktop-460
https://www.cyberark.com/resources/threat-research-blog/breaking-docker-named-pipes-systematically-docker-desktop-privilege-escalation-part-2