CVE-2025-9566
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.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.08%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
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
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.1 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.08% probability · 63th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-22
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:15692
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:15712
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:16158
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:16163
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2025:4782
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15900
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15901
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15904
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16480
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16481
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16482
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16488
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16515
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16724
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17669
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:18217
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:18218
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:18240
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19002
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19041
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19046
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19094
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19894
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:20909
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:20983
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18289
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18722
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:62549
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8211
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9566
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.