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CVE-2025-9566
September 05, 2025
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
Affected Packages
https://github.com/containers/podman.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v4.0.0 <v5.6.1
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v5.6.1
github.com/containers/podman/v5 (GO):
Affected version(s) >=v5.0.0-rc1 <v5.6.1
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v5.6.1
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CVSS v4
Base Score:
7.2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
HIGH
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
8.1
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Weakness Type (CWE)
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
EPSS
Base Score:
0.05