CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-55686

5.3 MEDIUM Published 2026-06-26 Modified 2026-10-25 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-06-26
Last modified
2026-10-25
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-61

Description

Podman is a tool for managing OCI containers and pods. From 3.0.0 until 5.7.1, running a malicious container image where the WORKDIR path contains a symlink can create a directory or modify ownership on the host filesystem. Modified ownership is less likely to happen as that requires help from an untrusted/malicious process that mutates the host filesystem tree during dereferencing of the WORKDIR path, to trigger a race condition. This vulnerability is fixed in 5.7.1.

Affected configurations

• podman project podman (>= 3.0.0 < 5.7.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-61 UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following weakness

References