CVE-2025-9164: Docker Desktop

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Docker Docker Desktop: up to and including 4.48.0

Published 2025-10-27. Last modified 2026-10-08.