CVE-2026-55686
Podman: WORKDIR symlink traversal vulnerability
CVSS Score
5.3
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th
Podman is a tool for managing OCI containers and pods. From 3.0.0 until 5.7.1, running a malicious container image where the WORKDIR path contains a symlink can create a directory or modify ownership on the host filesystem. Modified ownership is less likely to happen as that requires help from an untrusted/malicious process that mutates the host filesystem tree during dereferencing of the WORKDIR path, to trigger a race condition. This vulnerability is fixed in 5.7.1.
| CWE | CWE-61 |
| Vendor | podman-container-tools |
| Product | podman |
| Published | Jun 26, 2026 |
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CVSS v3 Breakdown
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Affected Versions
podman-container-tools / podman
>= 3.0.0, < 5.7.1