CVE-2025-9566High· 8.1▾ TwilightThere'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…
▾ Twilight zone — High severity, or a signal on a lesser flaw
impact 44.6 · likelihood 0.2 · exploitation 0
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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
Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.
Affected packages:
github.com/containers/podman/v5 <= 5.6.0github.com/containers/podman/v4 <= 4.9.5Patched in:
github.com/containers/podman/v5 5.6.1Source: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wp3j-xq48-xpjw
Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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