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Docker Desktop before 4.17.0 allows an unprivileged user to bypass Enhanced Container Isolation restrictions via the raw Docker socket and launch privileged containers

Published Mar 13, 2023

Description

Docker Desktop before 4.17.0 allows an unprivileged user to bypass Enhanced Container Isolation (ECI) restrictions by setting the Docker host to docker.raw.sock, or npipe:////.pipe/docker_engine_linux on Windows, via the -H (--host) CLI flag or the DOCKER_HOST environment variable and launch containers without the additional hardening features provided by ECI. This would not affect already running containers, nor containers launched through the usual approach (without Docker's raw socket).

The affected functionality is available for Docker Business customers only and assumes an environment where users are not granted local root or Administrator privileges. This issue has been fixed in Docker Desktop 4.17.0.

Affected Docker Desktop versions: from 4.13.0 before 4.17.0.

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Remediation

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Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED
Assigner Docker
Published Mar 13, 2023
Updated Feb 27, 2025
Reserved Feb 1, 2023

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated Feb 27, 2025

NVD

Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026

Red Hat

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ENISA EUVD

Assigner Docker
Published Mar 13, 2023
Updated Feb 27, 2025

GitHub

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