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CVE-2026-55686

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Published: Jun 26, 2026Modified: Jun 26, 2026

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5.3
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 1.4
Source: security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)

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 (1)

Podman Project
1 product
Podman
Configuration A
1 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Podman
From 3.0.0 to 5.7.1

Related CWEs

CWE-61
UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
The product, when opening a file or directory, does not sufficiently account for when the file is a symbolic link that resolves to a target outside of the intended control sphere. This could allow an attacker to cause the product to operate on unauthorized files.

References (3)

Source: security-advisories@github.com
Patch
Source: security-advisories@github.com
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
Source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory

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