CVE-2026-55686
CVE-2026-55686 updated by NVD
Summary
Podman is a tool for managing OCI containers and pods. From 3.0.0 until 5.7.1, running a malicious container image where the WORKDIR path contains a symlink can create a directory or modify ownership on the host filesystem. Modified ownership is less likely to happen as that requires help from an untrusted/malicious process that mutates the host filesystem tree during dereferencing of the WORKDIR path, to trigger a race condition. This vulnerability is fixed in 5.7.1.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected versions | Fixed versions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/containers/podman/v3 | — | — |
| Go | github.com/containers/podman/v4 | — | — |
| Go | github.com/containers/podman/v5 | — | 5.7.1 |
Remediation: No patched version is listed by GitHub.
References
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