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CVE-2025-62725

Docker Compose Vulnerable to Path Traversal via OCI Artifact Layer Annotations

HIGH
8.9
CVSS Score
Published: October 27, 2025 at 08:37 PM UTC
Updated: October 8, 2026 at 11:10 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorDocker Compose

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Severity
HIGH8.9
Exploit prediction
EPSS 14%
SSVC
No known exploit

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. 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. This issue is fixed in v2.40.2.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Docker Compose· Docker
90%
v < 2.40.2
Affected range stops below 2.40.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (2)

x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: cverecord
https://github.com/docker/compose/security/advisories/GHSA-gv8h-7v7w-r22q
x_refsource_MISC
Source: cverecord
https://github.com/docker/compose/commit/69bcb962bfb2ea53b41aa925333d356b577d6176

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

8.9HIGHGitHub_M
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-22

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