Podman: WORKDIR symlink traversal vulnerability (podman-container-tools podman)
At a glance
- Source
- NVD
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.40 % · percentile 35 ()
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- GitHub_M
- NVD status
- Analyzed
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.
Weaknesses (CWE)
- CWE-61 — UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
References
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N | GitHub_M |
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N | NVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary) |
Advisories
- GHSA-q6r4-3wmg-fwcq — Podman: WORKDIR symlink traversal vulnerability
- GO-2026-5568 — Podman: WORKDIR symlink traversal vulnerability in github.com/containers/podman
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-39808
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-55686
Affected configurations (NVD CPE)
cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*≥ 3.0.0 < 5.7.1
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| podman-container-tools · podman | affected >= 3.0.0, < 5.7.1 |
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |