vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2019-18466: CVE-2019-18466 podman: resolving symlink in host filesystem leads to unexpected results of copy operation (Multiple Advisories)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P) | Oct 28, 2019 | Jan 20, 2020 | Aug 11, 2025 |
Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Oct 28, 2019
Added
Jan 20, 2020
Modified
Aug 11, 2025
Description
An issue was discovered in Podman in libpod before 1.6.0. It resolves a symlink in the host context during a copy operation from the container to the host, because an undesired glob operation occurs. An attacker could create a container image containing particular symlinks that, when copied by a victim user to the host filesystem, may overwrite existing files with others from the host.
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