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.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 3
- https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/commit/d18e44e9abb3bf5b7294aa70806e1368fdddfdd0 Patch
- https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/security/advisories/GHSA-q6r4-3wmg-fwcq Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/security/advisories/GHSA-q6r4-3wmg-fwcq Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 5.3 · podman_projectNVD modified 2026-10-25 17:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 3
- https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/commit/d18e44e9abb3bf5b7294aa70806e1368fdddfdd0 Patch
- https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/security/advisories/GHSA-q6r4-3wmg-fwcq Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/security/advisories/GHSA-q6r4-3wmg-fwcq Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory