High
Podman: podman kube play command may overwrite host files
Type: advisorySources: OSV
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
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2025-9566
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 2 Nov 2026, 23:52 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Podman: podman kube play command may overwrite host files
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 5 Sept 2025, 19:54 UTC
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
osv:CVE-2025-9566
Complete source record
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