Description
Podman is a tool for managing OCI containers and pods. Versions 4.8.0 through 5.8.1 contain a command injection vulnerability in the HyperV machine backend in pkg/machine/hyperv/stubber.go, where the VM image path is inserted into a PowerShell double-quoted string without sanitization, allowing $() subexpression injection. Because PowerShell evaluates subexpressions inside double-quoted strings before executing the outer command, an attacker who can control the VM image path through a crafted machine name or image directory can execute arbitrary PowerShell commands with the privileges of the Podman process. On typical Windows installations this means SYSTEM-level code execution, and only Windows is affected as the code is exclusive to the HyperV backend. This issue has been patched in version 5.8.2.
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
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Github GHSA |
GHSA-hc8w-h2mf-hp59 | PowerShell Command Injection in Podman HyperV Machine |
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Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:00:00 +0000
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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| Description | Podman is a tool for managing OCI containers and pods. Versions 4.8.0 through 5.8.1 contain a command injection vulnerability in the HyperV machine backend in pkg/machine/hyperv/stubber.go, where the VM image path is inserted into a PowerShell double-quoted string without sanitization, allowing $() subexpression injection. Because PowerShell evaluates subexpressions inside double-quoted strings before executing the outer command, an attacker who can control the VM image path through a crafted machine name or image directory can execute arbitrary PowerShell commands with the privileges of the Podman process. On typical Windows installations this means SYSTEM-level code execution, and only Windows is affected as the code is exclusive to the HyperV backend. This issue has been patched in version 5.8.2. | |
| Title | PowerShell Command Injection in Podman HyperV Machine | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-78 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-04-14T22:42:19.822Z
Reserved: 2026-03-19T17:02:34.171Z
Link: CVE-2026-33414
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-04-14T23:16:27.987
Modified: 2026-04-14T23:16:27.987
Link: CVE-2026-33414
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Weaknesses
Github GHSA