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CVE-2025-9566 — There's a vulnerability in podman where an attacker may use the kube play command to overwrite host files…

Unknown · Unknown · Published 5 Sept 2025 · Modified 28 Sept 2026

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

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Link: adminadda.com/cve/CVE-2025-9566