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
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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 |
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Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux Redhat openshift Redhat openshift Devspaces |
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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 |
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Redhat enterprise Linux Redhat openshift Redhat openshift Devspaces |
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Title | podman: Podman kube play command may overwrite host files | |
Weaknesses | CWE-22 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2025-09-05T20:16:46.977Z
Reserved: 2025-08-27T22:17:43.489Z
Link: CVE-2025-9566

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

Status : Received
Published: 2025-09-05T20:15:36.727
Modified: 2025-09-05T20:15:36.727
Link: CVE-2025-9566


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