UBUNTU-CVE-2025-9566 (CVE-2025-9566)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2025-09-05 20:15 – Updated: 2026-05-20 15:16 – Source website
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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

Severity
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
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  "details": "There\u0027s 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",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2025-9566",
  "modified": "2026-05-20T15:16:00Z",
  "published": "2025-09-05T20:15:00Z",
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