CVE-2025-9566

Aliases:GHSA-wp3j-xq48-xpjwGO-2025-3935
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 36
Deferred
Published: 05 Sept 2025, 19:54
Last modified:19 May 2026, 13:28

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
32/100
CVSS Score
8.1 HIGH
v3.1 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
0.09% LOW
0% probability -0.02%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

05 Sept 2025, 19:54
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
19 May 2026, 13:28
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.09%• Percentile: 25%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-22•Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

    The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory.

Affected Systems

  • github.com/containers•podman

    all

  • github.com/containers/podman•v2

    all

  • github.com/containers/podman•v3

    all

  • github.com/containers/podman•v4

    all | ≤ 4.9.5

  • github.com/containers/podman•v5

    < 5.6.1

References (34)