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High · 7.3 CVE-2026-126329 EUVD-2026-124527GHSA-w92q-8xxw-h4r9

Docker Sandboxes privilege escalation through untrusted state directories

Published Nov 12, 2026 · Assigned by Docker

Description

Docker Sandboxes reuses existing state and configuration directories without verifying their ownership. If sbx or sandboxd is run as root with HOME or, on Linux, XDG_STATE_HOME pointing to an attacker-controlled location, a local unprivileged user can substitute control-plane sockets and configuration trusted by the root process, potentially executing commands as root. Exploitation requires a privileged invocation with an attacker-influenced environment. The issue affects Linux and macOS and is fixed in version 0.53.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Docker Docker Sandboxes 0.7.0 – < 0.53.0 0.53.0

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