CVE-2025-9566
8.1 HIGHThere's a vulnerability in podman where an attacker may use the kube play command to overwrite host files when the kube file container a ...
Published: 2025-09-05 · Last updated: 2026-05-19
Severity and scoring
- CVSS
- 8.1 HIGH
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- CWE
- CWE-22
Description
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
Source: NVD
References
- [NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-9566
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:15692
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:15712
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:16158
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:16163
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2025:4782
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15900
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15901
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15904
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16480
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16481
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16482
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16488
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16515
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16724
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17669
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:18217
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:18218
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:18240
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19002
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19041
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19046
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19094
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19894
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:20909
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:20983
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18289
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18722
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8211
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9566
- [Other]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2393152
- [Other]https://github.com/containers/podman/commit/43fbde4e665fe6cee6921868f04b7ccd3de5ad89
- [Other]https://github.com/containers/podman/security/advisories/GHSA-wp3j-xq48-xpjw
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