| Name | CVE-2025-9566 |
| 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 |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1114526 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| libpod (PTS) | bullseye | 3.0.1+dfsg1-3+deb11u5 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 4.3.1+ds1-8+deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| podman (PTS) | forky, trixie | 5.4.2+ds1-2 | vulnerable |
| sid | 5.6.1+ds2-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| libpod | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | |
| podman | source | experimental | 5.6.1+ds1-1 | | | |
| podman | source | (unstable) | 5.6.1+ds1-2 | | | 1114526 |
Notes
[trixie] - podman <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bookworm] - libpod <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - libpod <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2393152
Fixed by: https://github.com/containers/podman/commit/aaf8b9dc0cfec76444f7eda60660347646b90a13 (v5.6.1)