CVE-2022-38730 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2022-38730?

CVE-2022-38730 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 27 Apr 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-367, CWE-59

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-38730?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Docker Desktop.

How do I fix CVE-2022-38730?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-38730 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2022-38730 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-38730 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2024-8695 Code injection in Docker Desktop Critical 9.0
• CVE-2024-8696 Code injection in Docker Desktop High 8.9
• CVE-2022-37326 Path traversal in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2021-37841 Missing authorization in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2025-3224 Elevation of Privilege in Docker Desktop for Windows during Upgrade due to Insecure Directory Deletion High 7.3

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-pmgh-8j9v-4xhf.