Directory Traversal Affecting docker-compose package, versions <2.33.1-160000.4.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES1600-DOCKERCOMPOSE-15997432
  • published12 Apr 2026
  • disclosed27 Mar 2026

Introduced: 27 Mar 2026

NewCVE-2025-62725  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:16.0.0 docker-compose to version 2.33.1-160000.4.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream docker-compose package and not the docker-compose package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:16.0.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

Docker Compose trusts the path information embedded in remote OCI compose artifacts. When a layer includes the annotations com.docker.compose.extends or com.docker.compose.envfile, Compose joins the attacker‑supplied value from com.docker.compose.file/com.docker.compose.envfile with its local cache directory and writes the file there. This affects any platform or workflow that resolves remote OCI compose artifacts, Docker Desktop, standalone Compose binaries on Linux, CI/CD runners, cloud dev environments is affected. An attacker can escape the cache directory and overwrite arbitrary files on the machine running docker compose, even if the user only runs read‑only commands such as docker compose config or docker compose ps. This issue is fixed in v2.40.2.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1