Medium
podman — security advisory
A flaw was found in Podman. If an attacker can pass a crafted tar archive to the `podman load` command, they can create files on the host machine with the privileges of the user running Podman.
- Products
- podman
- Affected versions
- 5.4.2+ds1-2, 5.7.0+ds2-3, 5.7.0+ds2-3build1, 5.8.3+ds1-1, 5.8.4+ds1-1, 5.8.6+ds1-2
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2025-11395
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 01:24 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw was found in Podman. If an attacker can pass a crafted tar archive to the `podman load` command, they can create files on the host machine with the privileges of the user running Podman.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2025-11395
podman
Fixed versions: Not specified
podman
Fixed versions: Not specified
Complete source record
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