Race condition

2023-04-2720:15:00

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race condition

docker desktop

windowscontainers

api

symlink vulnerability

toctou

6.3 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

9.1%

JSON

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.