CVE record · CVE-2026-77179

Docker Sandboxes guest can write arbitrary macOS host files via a symlink in the virtio-fs stored-path fallback

CVSS 9.4 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.0020 · 9th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.4: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Docker) at 15 Sept 2026, 13:32 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
VendorProductVersions
Docker Docker Sandboxes
  • affected 0.28.0 to before 0.42.0 semver
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-77179
CNA
Docker
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-59
Published
15 Sept 2026
Updated
15 Sept 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
9.4 Critical 4.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H CNA (Docker)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0020, the 9th percentile, on 5 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 15 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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.