CVE-2025-9566

Publication date 5 September 2025

Last updated 15 September 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
podman	26.04 LTS resolute	Vulnerable
	25.10 questing	Ignored end of life, was needed
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was needed
	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not in release
libpod	26.04 LTS resolute	Not in release
	25.10 questing	Not in release
	25.04 plucky	Not in release
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
podman	Upstream: aaf8b9d

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.1 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.1 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H