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CVE-2025-9566NVD
Vulnerability Summary
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
Binary-Affected: podman
Upstream-version-introduced: v4.0.0
Upstream-version-fixed: v5.6.1
CVSS v3.1 Base Metrics
Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredLow
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh
External References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:15692
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:15712
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:16158
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:16163
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2025:4782
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15900
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15901
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15904
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16480
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16481
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16482
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16488
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16515
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16724
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17669
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:18217
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:18218
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:18240
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19002
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19041
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19046
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19094
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19894
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:20909
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:20983
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18289
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18722
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8211
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9566
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2393152
- https://github.com/containers/podman/commit/43fbde4e665fe6cee6921868f04b7ccd3de5ad89
- https://github.com/containers/podman/security/advisories/GHSA-wp3j-xq48-xpjw