CVE-2026-73040: louislam dockge

Dockge Path Traversal via Unvalidated Stack Name Allows Arbitrary Compose and .env Disclosure and Arbitrary Directory Deletion

CVSS 8.7 HighEPSS 0.0094 · 61st percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: VulnCheck) at 20 Aug 2026, 20:29 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
louislam	dockge pkg:github/louislam/dockge	affected 1.5.0 and earlier semver Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers

CVE-2026-73040

CNA

VulnCheck

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-22

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
8.7	High	4.0	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	CNA (VulnCheck)Used for this record
8.8	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (VulnCheck)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0094, the 61st percentile, on 13 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 20 Aug 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

github.com/louislam/dockge/issues/994 issue-tracking
github.com/louislam/dockge/blob/1.5.0/backend/stack.ts#L155-L157 technical-description
github.com/louislam/dockge/blob/1.5.0/backend/stack.ts#L377-L379 technical-description
github.com/louislam/dockge/blob/1.5.0/backend/stack.ts#L218-L232 technical-description
github.com/louislam/dockge/blob/1.5.0/backend/agent-socket-handlers/docker-socket-handler.ts#L43-L78 technical-description
github.com/louislam/dockge product
www.vulncheck.com/advisories/dockge-path-traversal-via-unvalidated-stack-name-allows-arbitrary-compose-and-env-disclosure-and-arbitrary-directory-deletion third-party-advisory

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.