CVE-2025-9566 (GCVE-0-2025-9566)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-05 19:54
Modified
2025-10-30 06:43
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
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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    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support Unaffected: 8060020250919150821.3b538bd8   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_tus:8.6::appstream
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    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.6::appstream
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service Unaffected: 8060020250919150821.3b538bd8   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_tus:8.6::appstream
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    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.6::appstream
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions Unaffected: 8060020250919150821.3b538bd8   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_tus:8.6::appstream
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_aus:8.6::appstream
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.6::appstream
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Service Unaffected: 8080020250919060528.0f77c1b7   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.8::appstream
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions Unaffected: 8080020250919060528.0f77c1b7   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.8::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 Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions Unaffected: 2:4.2.0-6.el9_0.5   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:9.0::appstream
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions Unaffected: 2:4.4.1-22.el9_2.4   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:9.2::appstream
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support Unaffected: 4:4.9.4-18.el9_4.3   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4::appstream
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   Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.13::el9
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   Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.14::el9
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   Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.17::el9
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   Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.18::el9
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   Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.19::el9
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   Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.20     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.20::el9
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   Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces (RHOSDS) 3.24 Unaffected: sha256:578054a3f30b30ac5560403166b59c1d895394ee9e8a2396591a8c02955a5cc4   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_devspaces:3.24::el9
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   Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces (RHOSDS) 3.24 Unaffected: sha256:91b615e55b5f38d40e99884b51885f1aa19effadeeff36e226240d8a1957c5b6   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_devspaces:3.24::el9
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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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   Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_devspaces:3:
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