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+{
+  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
+  "id": "GHSA-p436-gjf2-799p",
+  "modified": "2026-03-05T00:10:40Z",
+  "published": "2026-03-05T00:10:40Z",
+  "aliases": [
+    "CVE-2025-15558"
+  ],
+  "summary": "Docker CLI Plugins: Uncontrolled Search Path Element Leads to Local Privilege Escalation on Windows",
+  "details": "This issue affects Docker CLI through 29.1.5\n\n### Impact\n\nDocker CLI for Windows searches for plugin binaries in `C:\\ProgramData\\Docker\\cli-plugins`, a directory that does not exist by default. A low-privileged attacker can create this directory and place malicious CLI plugin binaries (docker-compose.exe, docker-buildx.exe, etc.) that are executed when a victim user opens Docker Desktop or invokes Docker CLI plugin features, and allow privilege-escalation if the `docker` CLI is executed as a privileged user.\n\nThis issue affects Docker CLI through v29.1.5 (fixed in v29.2.0). It impacts Windows binaries acting as a CLI plugin manager via the [`github.com/docker/cli/cli-plugins/manager`](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/docker/cli@v29.1.5+incompatible/cli-plugins/manager) package, which is consumed by downstream projects such as Docker Compose.\n\nDocker Compose became affected starting in v2.31.0, when it incorporated the relevant CLI plugin manager code (see https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/12300), and is fixed in v5.1.0.\n\nThis issue does not impact non-Windows binaries or projects that do not use the plugin manager code.\n\n### Patches\n\nFixed version starts with 29.2.0\n\nThis issue was fixed in https://github.com/docker/cli/commit/13759330b1f7e7cb0d67047ea42c5482548ba7fa (https://github.com/docker/cli/pull/6713), which removed `%PROGRAMDATA%\\Docker\\cli-plugins` from the list of paths used for plugin-discovery on Windows.\n\n### Workarounds\n\nNone\n\n### Resources\n\n- Pull request: \"cli-plugins/manager: remove legacy system-wide cli-plugin path\" (https://github.com/docker/cli/pull/6713)\n- Patch: https://github.com/docker/cli/commit/13759330b1f7e7cb0d67047ea42c5482548ba7fa.patch\n\n### Credits\n\nNitesh Surana (niteshsurana.com) of Trend Research of TrendAI",
+  "severity": [
+    {
+      "type": "CVSS_V4",
+      "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N"
+    }
+  ],
+  "affected": [
+    {
+      "package": {
+        "ecosystem": "Go",
+        "name": "github.com/docker/cli"
+      },
+      "ranges": [
+        {
+          "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
+          "events": [
+            {
+              "introduced": "19.03.0"
+            },
+            {
+              "fixed": "29.2.0"
+            }
+          ]
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "package": {
+        "ecosystem": "Go",
+        "name": "github.com/docker/compose/v2"
+      },
+      "ranges": [
+        {
+          "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
+          "events": [
+            {
+              "introduced": "2.31.0"
+            },
+            {
+              "last_affected": "2.40.3"
+            }
+          ]
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "package": {
+        "ecosystem": "Go",
+        "name": "github.com/docker/compose/v5"
+      },
+      "ranges": [
+        {
+          "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
+          "events": [
+            {
+              "introduced": "0"
+            },
+            {
+              "fixed": "5.1.0"
+            }
+          ]
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  ],
+  "references": [
+    {
+      "type": "WEB",
+      "url": "https://github.com/docker/cli/security/advisories/GHSA-p436-gjf2-799p"
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "ADVISORY",
+      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-15558"
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "WEB",
+      "url": "https://github.com/docker/cli/pull/6713"
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "WEB",
+      "url": "https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/12300"
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "WEB",
+      "url": "https://github.com/docker/cli/commit/13759330b1f7e7cb0d67047ea42c5482548ba7fa"
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "WEB",
+      "url": "https://docs.docker.com/desktop/release-notes"
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "PACKAGE",
+      "url": "https://github.com/docker/cli"
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "WEB",
+      "url": "https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-CAN-28304"
+    }
+  ],
+  "database_specific": {
+    "cwe_ids": [
+      "CWE-427"
+    ],
+    "severity": "HIGH",
+    "github_reviewed": true,
+    "github_reviewed_at": "2026-03-05T00:10:40Z",
+    "nvd_published_at": "2026-03-04T17:16:14Z"
+  }
+}