CVE-2025-9566

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-22 Path Traversal

Publication date:

05/09/2025

Last modified:

09/02/2026

Description

There&#39;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.<br /> <br /> Binary-Affected: podman<br /> Upstream-version-introduced: v4.0.0<br /> Upstream-version-fixed: v5.6.1

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 8.10 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

8.10

Severity 3.x

HIGH

CVE-2025-9566

Description

Impact

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