CVE-2022-38730: Docker Desktop

Medium severity, CVSS 6.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Docker Desktop for Windows before 4.6 allows attackers to overwrite any file through the windowscontainers/start dockerBackendV2 API by controlling the data-root field inside the DaemonJSON field in the WindowsContainerStartRequest class. This allows exploiting a symlink vulnerability in ..\dataRoot\network\files\local-kv.db because of a TOCTOU race condition.

Affected products

• Docker Desktop: before 4.6.0 (fixed in 4.6.0)

Published 2023-04-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.