CVE-2026-55686

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-55686
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-55686.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-55686
Aliases
Downstream
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BELL (1)
DEBIAN (1)
MINI (1)
openSUSE (2)
RHSA (1)
SUSE (4)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
openSUSE (2)
SUSE (4)
Published
2026-06-26T16:30:41Z
Modified
2026-10-19T17:27:23Z
Severity
  • 5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
Podman: WORKDIR symlink traversal vulnerability
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner":  "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-61"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/55xxx/CVE-2026-55686.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/podman-container-tools/podman

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman
Events
Introduced
5b2585f5e91ca148f068cefa647c23f8b1ade622
Fixed
f845d14e941889ba4c071f35233d09b29d363c75
Fixed
d18e44e9abb3bf5b7294aa70806e1368fdddfdd0
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "3.0.0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed":  "5.7.1"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_RANGE"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "d18e44e9abb3bf5b7294aa70806e1368fdddfdd0"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-55686.json"