docker/compose · Security
Docker Compose Vulnerable to Path Traversal via OCI Artifact Layer Annotations
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-gv8h-7v7w-r22q
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-62725
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS v4
- 8.9 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
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.
Impact
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.
Patches
v2.40.2
Workarounds
NA
CWEs
- CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation
- CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')