CVE-2022-38730

Published Apr 27, 2023

Last updated 2 years ago

CVSS medium 6.3

Overview

Description: 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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 6.3
Impact score: 5.2
Exploitability score: 1
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Severity: MEDIUM

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-367

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:docker:desktop:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "D0374A4A-5949-461F-B1B5-C8A46DFD3FC8",
            "versionEndExcluding": "4.6.0"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References