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CVE-2025-9566

Podman: podman kube play command may overwrite host files

CVSS 8.1 HIGHEPSS 1.0%CWE-22
Vexday Risk Score
21Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 8.1EPSS 1.0%KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch referenciado
Lifecycle
05 Sep 2025Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
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
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

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