Vulnerability · Published Mar 18, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-10665
Medium 6.7
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.4% (higher than 73% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Official description
Docker Desktop allows local privilege escalation to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM because it mishandles the collection of diagnostics with Administrator privileges, leading to arbitrary DACL permissions overwrites and arbitrary file writes. This affects Docker Desktop Enterprise before 2.1.0.9, Docker Desktop for Windows Stable before 2.2.0.4, and Docker Desktop for Windows Edge before 2.2.2.0.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://github.com/active-labs/Advisories/blob/master/2020/ACTIVE-2020-002.md x_refsource_MISC
- https://docs.docker.com/release-notes/ x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/spaceraccoon/CVE-2020-10665 x_refsource_MISC