Description
There's a vulnerability in podman where an attacker may use the kube play command to overwrite host files when the kube file container a Secrete or a ConfigMap volume mount and such volume contains a symbolic link to a host file path. In a successful attack, the attacker can only control the target file to be overwritten but not the content to be written into the file. Binary-Affected: podman Upstream-version-introduced: v4.0.0 Upstream-version-fixed: v5.6.1
References10
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:15692
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:15712
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:16131
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:16158
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:16163
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:18215
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2025:4782
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15900
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15901
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15904
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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8.1
HIGH
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 1% percentile: 69 · as of 8 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-22
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