Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Apr 27, 2023· Updated Jan 31, 2025

CVE-2022-38730

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.

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Docker/Docker Desktop for Windowsdescription
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Range: <4.6

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References

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

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