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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2019-18466

An attacker could create a container image containing particular symlinks that, when copied by a victim user to the host filesystem, may overwrite existing files with others from the host.

MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 1.39%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.39%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

An issue was discovered in Podman in libpod before 1.6.0. It resolves a symlink in the host context during a copy operation from the container to the host, because an undesired glob operation occurs. An attacker could create a container image containing particular symlinks that, when copied by a victim user to the host filesystem, may overwrite existing files with others from the host.

CVSS 3.1
5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS
1.39% probability · 72th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-59
Affected
libpod project/libpod
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%3%5%26 October 2026: 1.39%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 1.4% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.