CVE-2025-9566

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-9566
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-9566.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-9566
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-09-05T19:54:30.503Z
Modified
2026-05-21T03:53:47.043950206Z
Severity
  • 8.1 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Podman: podman kube play command may overwrite host files
Details

There's a vulnerability in podman where an attacker may use the kube play command to overwrite host files when the kube file container a Secrete or a ConfigMap volume mount and such volume contains a symbolic link to a host file path. In a successful attack, the attacker can only control the target file to be overwritten but not the content to be written into the file.

Binary-Affected: podman Upstream-version-introduced: v4.0.0 Upstream-version-fixed: v5.6.1

Database specific 
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-22"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/9xxx/CVE-2025-9566.json",
    "cna_assigner": "redhat"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/containers/podman

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/containers/podman
Events
Introduced
84c8870ac236578c41713113fc09a29a5f727bdd
Fixed
1e2b2315150b2ffa0971596fb5da8cd83f3ce0e1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-9566.json"