CVE-2025-9566CWE-22path-traversal

CVE-2025-9566

High · published September 6, 2025

CVSS v3.1
8.1
EPSS
1%
Percentile
66.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01159 · 66.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Published
2025-09-06T00:15Z
References (34)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:15692 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:15712 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:16158 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:16163 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2025:4782 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15900 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15901 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15904 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16480 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16481 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16482 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16488 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16515 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16724 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17669 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:18217 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:18218 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:18240 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19002 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19041 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19046 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19094 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19894 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:20909 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:20983 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18289 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18722 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:62549 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:67857 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8211 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9566 · [email protected]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2393152 · [email protected]https://github.com/containers/podman/commit/43fbde4e665fe6cee6921868f04b7ccd3de5ad89 · [email protected]https://github.com/containers/podman/security/advisories/GHSA-wp3j-xq48-xpjw · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 SEP 19:54Z
    Podman: podman kube play command may overwrite host files
    cvelistv5