CVE-2025-9566 HIGH

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

Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
Weakness CWE-22 · Path traversal
Published September 5, 2025
Last update May 19, 2026

CVSS base score

8.1/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 5, 2025 CVE published
May 19, 2026 Record updated