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TI-2025-08402 Aliases CVE-2025-9164GHSA-5p9c-72f9-f98q

Multiple DLL Search Order Hijacking Vulnerabilities in Docker Desktop Installer for Windows

Priority LOW 39CWE-427Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Local
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
High
Attack requirements
Present
Impact type
Code execution
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-427.

Summary

Docker Desktop Installer.exe is vulnerable to DLL hijacking due to insecure DLL search order. The installer searches for required DLLs in the user's Downloads folder before checking system directories, allowing local privilege escalation through malicious DLL placement.This issue affects Docker Desktop: through 4.48.0.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00111 1st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
DockerDocker Desktopup to 4.48.0—No fix listedCNA
  • Docker Desktop VendorDocker Affected up to 4.48.0 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-9164
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-5p9c-72f9-f98q

References

Other 1

  • TI-2019-11833 Docker Desktop Community Edition before 2.1.0.1 allows local users to gain privileges by… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
  • TI-2019-04061 runc through 1.0-rc6, as used in Docker before 18.09.2 and other products, allows… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.6
  • TI-2025-08316 Docker Desktop allows unauthenticated access to Docker Engine API from containers CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
  • TI-2025-02823 Elevation of Privilege in Docker Desktop for Windows during Upgrade due to Insecure Directory Deletion CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.3
  • TI-2026-14229 Tar extraction in moby/go-archive can write outside the destination directory via link following CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.1
  • TI-2023-21271 Docker Machine through 0.16.2 allows an attacker, who has control of a worker node, to… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
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Sources

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