CVE-2025-9566
Medium
Elevated severity or exploit probability.
CVSS base
8.1
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)
1.1%
63.6th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness / dates
CWE-22
Published 2025-09-05 · modified 2026-09-10
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
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:15692
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:15712
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:16158
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:16163
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2025:4782
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15900
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15901
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15904
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16480
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16481
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16482
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16488
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16515
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16724
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17669
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:18217
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:18218
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:18240
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19002
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19041
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19046
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19094
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19894
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:20909
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:20983
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18289
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18722
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:62549
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8211
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9566