CVE-2022-38730 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Docker	Desktop

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:docker:desktop:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://docs.docker.com/desktop/release-notes/#docker-desktop-460
https://www.cyberark.com/resources/threat-research-blog/breaking-docker-named-pipes-systematically-docker-desktop-privilege-escalation-part-2

History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00035}`	epss `{'score': 0.00032}`

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-04-27T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-01-31T19:10:39.528Z

Reserved: 2022-08-24T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-38730

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T11:02:14.382Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-04-27T20:15:40.153

Modified: 2025-01-31T20:15:29.437

Link: CVE-2022-38730

Redhat

No data.

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