VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2026-55686

CVSS score5.3 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.40%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-06-26
Last modified2026-10-25
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-61: UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following

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