vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2025-9566: podman: Podman kube play command may overwrite host files (Multiple Advisories)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:C/A:C) | Sep 4, 2025 | Sep 17, 2025 | Jan 28, 2026 |
Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 4, 2025
Added
Sep 17, 2025
Modified
Jan 28, 2026
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
Solutions
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