CVE-2025-9074CWE-668

Docker Desktop allows unauthenticated access to Docker Engine API from containers

Critical · published August 20, 2025

CVSS v4.0
9.3
EPSS
2%
Percentile
78.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A vulnerability was identified in Docker Desktop that allows local running Linux containers to access the Docker Engine API via the configured Docker subnet, at 192.168.65.7:2375 by default. This vulnerability occurs with or without Enhanced Container Isolation (ECI) enabled, and with or without the "Expose daemon on tcp://localhost:2375 without TLS" option enabled.

This can lead to execution of a wide range of privileged commands to the engine API, including controlling other containers, creating new ones, managing images etc. In some circumstances (e.g. Docker Desktop for Windows with WSL backend) it also allows mounting the host drive with the same privileges as the user running Docker Desktop.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
9.3 · CRITICAL
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
EPSS
0.01829 · 78.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-668 · Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere
Published
2025-08-20T13:28Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 AUG 13:28Z
    Docker Desktop allows unauthenticated access to Docker Engine API from containers
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