GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go

GHSA-gv8h-7v7w-r22q Docker Compose Vulnerable to Path Traversal via OCI Artifact Layer Annotations

HIGH Published 2025-10-27 Modified 2025-11-27 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2025-62725
Ecosystem
Go
Packages
github.com/docker/compose/v2
Severity
High
CVSS vector
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
Weaknesses
CWE-20, CWE-22
Reviewed
2025-10-27

Affected packages

• Go github.com/docker/compose/v2: >= 2.34.0, < 2.40.2 → fixed in 2.40.2

Description

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

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2025-62725 Docker Compose trusts the path information embedded in remote OCI compose artifacts. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References