5.3

CVE-2026-55686: podman_project podman UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following

CVSS: 5.3v3.1MediumAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-55686DEBIAN-CVE-2026-55686GHSA-q6r4-3wmg-fwcq
Published 26-06-2026Last modified 26-06-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-55686 is a medium (CVSS 5.3) UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in podman_project podman. EPSS estimates a 0.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33.1% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.3/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.40%
0%100%
Low · +0.03 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1github

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 7 · Related 6
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1OPENSUSE-SU-2026:22089-1RHSA-2026:29954SUSE-SU-2026:23205-1SUSE-SU-2026:3536-1SUSE-SU-2026:3652-1

Timeline

  1. 26-06-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 26-06-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.40%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

33%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.03 pp

From 0.37% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.40%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • githubUnverified

    Podman

    Maturity: poc

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Github.com/containers/podman4 products
  • v2All versions (No fix recorded)
  • v3≤ 3.4.7 | All versions (No fix recorded)
  • v4≤ 4.9.5 | All versions (No fix recorded)
  • v5< 5.7.1
Debian1 product
  • podmanAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.8.1+ds1-2
Github.com/containers1 product
  • podmanAll versions (No fix recorded)
Podman_project1 product
Podman-container-tools1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • podmanAll versions (No fix recorded)

6 vendors · 9 products

References

7 links