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.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
X_Refsource_Confirm x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/security/advisories/GHSA-q6r4-3wmg-fwcq
X_Refsource_Misc x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/commit/d18e44e9abb3bf5b7294aa70806e1368fdddfdd0
Scores
CVSS v3
5.3
EPSS
0.0032
EPSS Percentile
24.1%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-61
Status
published
Products (2)
podman-container-tools/podman
>= 3.0.0, < 5.7.1
podman_project/podman
3.0.0 - 5.7.1
Published
Jun 26, 2026
Tracked Since
Jun 26, 2026