CVE-2025-9164

Multiple DLL Search Order Hijacking Vulnerabilities in Docker Desktop Installer for Windows

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Oct 27, 2025
Updated: Feb 26, 2026
Reserved: Aug 19, 2025

Description

Docker Desktop Installer.exe is vulnerable to DLL hijacking due to insecure DLL search order. The installer searches for required DLLs in the user's Downloads folder before checking system directories, allowing local privilege escalation through malicious DLL placement.This issue affects Docker Desktop: through 4.48.0.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	8.8 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/S:P/AU:Y/R:U/V:C	Docker

Weaknesses

CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Docker DesktopDocker	4.48.0 and earlierAffected

References

https://docs.docker.com/desktop/release-notes/

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