CVE-2025-9566 (GCVE-0-2025-9566)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-05 19:54
Modified
2025-09-16 11:57
Severity ?
8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Summary
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
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15900
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15901
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15904
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9566
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2393152
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Unaffected: 6:5.4.0-13.el10_0   < *
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.0
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Unaffected: 8100020250911075811.afee755d   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Unaffected: 5:5.4.0-13.el9_6   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream
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   Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4
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   Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4
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   Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_devspaces:3:
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