vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2025-9566: Path Traversal

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 5, 2025
Added
Sep 8, 2025
Modified
Dec 5, 2025

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

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-podman
Title
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