CVE-2025-9566 – Podman: podman kube play command may overwrite host files

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CVE-2025-9566 vulnerability over time.

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  • New CVE Received
    by [email protected]

    Sep. 05, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added 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

    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
    Added CWE CWE-22
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9566
    Added Reference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2393152
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