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

October 27, 2025

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.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-gv8h-7v7w-r22q
github.com/docker/compose
github.com/docker/compose/commit/69bcb962bfb2ea53b41aa925333d356b577d6176
github.com/docker/compose/security/advisories/GHSA-gv8h-7v7w-r22q
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-62725

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