# CVE-2025-62725: Docker Compose Vulnerable to Path Traversal via OCI Artifact Layer Annotations

> CVE-2025-62725: Docker Compose Vulnerable to Path Traversal via OCI Artifact Layer Annotations. CVSS 8.9 (CVSS 4.0).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-62725
Last updated: 2026-10-08T11:10:00Z

- Published: 2025-10-27 20:37 UTC · Updated: 2026-10-08 11:10 UTC · Assigner: GitHub\_M
- CVSS: 8.9 (CVSS 4.0) · Severity: High
- EPSS: 13.7%, 96th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-22

## Description

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.

## Affected vendors and products

- docker: compose

## Tracked companies

- [Docker](https://rewindex.com/company/docker.md)

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-62725)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-62725)
- [https://github.com/docker/compose/commit/69bcb962bfb2ea53b41aa925333d356b577d6176](https://github.com/docker/compose/commit/69bcb962bfb2ea53b41aa925333d356b577d6176)
- [https://github.com/docker/compose/security/advisories/GHSA-gv8h-7v7w-r22q](https://github.com/docker/compose/security/advisories/GHSA-gv8h-7v7w-r22q)

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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-62725 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-62725.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2025-62725 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T03:12:26.716Z