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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-10856

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.

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CVE-2018-10856
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31 Oct 2026, 10:13 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2018-10856

core-osv · Original source

Published 3 Jul 2018, 01:29 UTC

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
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  "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": [
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              "repo": "https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "3e0ff127c2210cc54681a776e12d8f1d3ae66630"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "bae80a0b663925ec751ad2784ca32989403cdc24"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
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                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:libpod_project:libpod:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
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                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "0.6.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
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                    "range": [
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                    ],
                    "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"
}