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
Problem types
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Product status
6:5.4.0-13.el10_0 (rpm) before *
8100020250911075811.afee755d (rpm) before *
8060020250919150821.3b538bd8 (rpm) before *
8060020250919150821.3b538bd8 (rpm) before *
8060020250919150821.3b538bd8 (rpm) before *
8080020250919060528.0f77c1b7 (rpm) before *
8080020250919060528.0f77c1b7 (rpm) before *
5:5.4.0-13.el9_6 (rpm) before *
2:4.2.0-6.el9_0.5 (rpm) before *
2:4.4.1-22.el9_2.4 (rpm) before *
4:4.9.4-18.el9_4.3 (rpm) before *
Timeline
2025-09-04: | Reported to Red Hat. |
2025-09-04: | Made public. |
Credits
This issue was discovered by Paul Holzinger (Red Hat).
References
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15900 (RHSA-2025:15900)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15901 (RHSA-2025:15901)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15904 (RHSA-2025:15904)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16480 (RHSA-2025:16480)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16481 (RHSA-2025:16481)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16482 (RHSA-2025:16482)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16488 (RHSA-2025:16488)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16515 (RHSA-2025:16515)
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9566
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2393152 (RHBZ#2393152)