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CVE-2022-38730
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.3
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2023-04-27T20:15:40.153 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:57:05.090

Summary

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.

Affected products

docker — desktop

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