November 3, 2021 · Applied Cybernetics Group
CVE-2019-15752 — Docker Desktop Community Edition
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
- 98.0th percentile (score 0.296, as of
2026-07-13) - 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.