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CVE

CVE-2025-62725

Docker Compose Vulnerable to Path Traversal via OCI Artifact Layer Annotations
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CVE

CVE-2025-62725

Docker Compose Vulnerable to Path Traversal via OCI Artifact Layer Annotations

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

Package Versions Affected

Package Version
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CVSS Version

Severity
Base Score
CVSS Version
Score Vector
C
H
U
8.9
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4.0
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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
C
H
U
0
-
C
H
U
8.8
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3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Related Resources

No items found.

References

https://github.com/docker/compose/security/advisories/GHSA-gv8h-7v7w-r22q, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-62725, https://github.com/docker/compose/commit/69bcb962bfb2ea53b41aa925333d356b577d6176, https://github.com/docker/compose

Severity

8.8

CVSS Score
0
10

Basic Information

Ecosystem
Base CVSS
8.8
EPSS Probability
0.00026%
EPSS Percentile
0.06516%
Introduced Version
2.34.0,v2.34.0,v2.0.0-20250307125810-66a47169d51e,v2.33.0,v2.0.0-20250129144500-840288895e67
Fix Available
2.40.2,v2.40.2,v2.0.0-20251022173216-69bcb962bfb2

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