Docker Desktop Community Edition Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Added to KEV
2021-11-03
Federal due date
2022-05-03
Vendor
Docker
Product
Desktop Community Edition
EPSS
97.7th percentile (score 0.456, as of 2026-06-08)
NVD CVSS v3.1
Ransomware use
Unknown
Upstream
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15752

CISA short description

Docker Desktop Community Edition contains a vulnerability that may allow local users to escalate privileges by placing a trojan horse docker-credential-wincred.exe file in %PROGRAMDATA%\DockerDesktop\version-bin\.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

EPSS percentile is the FIRST.org exploit-probability ranking as of the date noted above; it moves daily. CVSS reflects NVD's analysis at time of publication.