🛡️ CVE-2022-26659
🟠 CVSS 7.1 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-59 NVD
7.1
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Docker Desktop installer on Windows in versions before 4.6.0 allows an attacker to overwrite any administrator writable files by creating a symlink in place of where the installer writes its log file. Starting from version 4.6.0, the Docker Desktop installer, when run elevated, will write its log files to a location not writable by non-administrator users.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-59
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-03-25
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
docker-desktop 4.6.0

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