High
Security advisory
It has been discovered that podman before version 0.6.1 does not drop capabilities when executing a container as a non-root user. This results in unnecessary privileges being granted to the container.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-10856
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:13 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
It has been discovered that podman before version 0.6.1 does not drop capabilities when executing a container as a non-root user. This results in unnecessary privileges being granted to the container.
osv:CVE-2018-10856
Complete source record
{
"id": "8248eff768b8e9fa5b136e7d0e8db03b5bf4126124bed996e2b619f87ab78db3",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-10856",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2018-10856",
"summary": "It has been discovered that podman before version 0.6.1 does not drop capabilities when executing a container as a non-root user. This results in unnecessary privileges being granted to the container.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-10856",
"products": [],
"severity": "high",
"structured": {
"id": "CVE-2018-10856",
"aliases": [
"CVE-2018-10856",
"GHSA-wp7w-vx86-vj9h",
"GO-2023-1962"
],
"metrics": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
}
],
"affected": [
{
"ranges": [
{
"repo": "https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman",
"type": "GIT",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "3e0ff127c2210cc54681a776e12d8f1d3ae66630"
},
{
"fixed": "bae80a0b663925ec751ad2784ca32989403cdc24"
}
],
"database_specific": {
"extracted_events": [
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:libpod_project:libpod:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"range": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "0.6.1"
}
],
"source": "CPE_RANGE"
},
{
"range": [
{
"fixed": "bae80a0b663925ec751ad2784ca32989403cdc24"
}
],
"source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
}
]
}
}
],
"versions": [
"v0.2.1",
"v0.2"
],
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-10856.json"
}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-20T10:49:58.416515812Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2037",
"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10856",
"https://github.com/projectatomic/libpod/commit/bae80a0b663925ec751ad2784ca32989403cdc24"
],
"provider_metadata": {}
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2018-10856",
"evidence": "/id"
}
],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 381091,
"published_at": "2018-07-03T01:29:00.643+00:00"
}