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CVE-2026-55686
Published:June 26, 2026
Updated:June 29, 2026
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.
Affected Packages
https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v5.0.0-rc1 <v5.7.1
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v5.7.1
github.com/containers/podman/v5 (GO):
Affected version(s) >=v5.0.0-rc1 <v5.7.1
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v5.7.1
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CVSS v4
Base Score:
6.9
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
LOW
Vulnerable System Availability
NONE
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
5.3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
LOW
Availability
NONE
Weakness Type (CWE)
Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
EPSS
Base Score:
0.32