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CVE-2026-55686

5.3 medium SSVC exploitation: poc Analyzed

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.

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Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 3

Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.

Change history 1

  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