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

Metrics

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00095.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendors Products
Redhat
  • Enterprise Linux
  • Openshift
  • Openshift Devspaces
  • Rhel Aus
  • Rhel E4s
  • Rhel Eus
  • Rhel Tus

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-27030 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
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-wp3j-xq48-xpjw podman kube play symlink traversal vulnerability
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

Red Hat advises to not run the podman kube play command with untrusted Kubernetes YAML file as input, additionally review the Kubernetes YAML file before running it through podman may help to catch maliciously crafted secretes or volumes that may be used to exploit this vulnerability.

References
Link Providers
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15900 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15901 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15904 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16480 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16481 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16482 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16488 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16515 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:18217 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:18218 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:18240 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19002 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19041 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19046 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19094 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9566 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2393152 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-9566 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-9566 cve-icon
History

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.20::el9
References

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.14::el9
References

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 12:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.18::el9
References

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.13::el9
References

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_devspaces:3.24::el9
References

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 06:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.19::el9
References

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 05:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.17::el9
References

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:15:00 +0000

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CPEs cpe:/o:redhat:rhivos:1
Vendors & Products Redhat rhivos

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Redhat rhivos
CPEs cpe:/o:redhat:rhivos:1
Vendors & Products Redhat rhivos

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 22:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.8::appstream
cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:9.2::appstream
cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_tus:8.8::appstream
References

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Redhat rhel Eus
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4::appstream
Vendors & Products Redhat rhel Eus
References

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Redhat rhel Aus
Redhat rhel Tus
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_aus:8.6::appstream
cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.6::appstream
cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_tus:8.6::appstream
Vendors & Products Redhat rhel Aus
Redhat rhel Tus
References

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Redhat rhel E4s
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:9.0::appstream
Vendors & Products Redhat rhel E4s
References

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 12:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream
References

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream
References

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 02:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.0
References

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 21:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 20:15:00 +0000

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Description No description is available for this CVE. 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
Title podman: Podman kube play command may overwrite host files Podman: podman kube play command may overwrite host files
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
Redhat openshift
Redhat openshift Devspaces
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4
cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_devspaces:3:
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
Redhat openshift
Redhat openshift Devspaces
References

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description No description is available for this CVE.
Title podman: Podman kube play command may overwrite host files
Weaknesses CWE-22
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

 cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H'}

threat_severity

Important
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2025-11-07T18:34:38.199Z

Reserved: 2025-08-27T22:17:43.489Z

Link: CVE-2025-9566

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-09-05T20:16:41.981Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-09-05T20:15:36.727

Modified: 2025-10-30T07:15:33.767

Link: CVE-2025-9566

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2025-09-04T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2025-9566 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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