CVE-2023-0778

🔶 medium

Summary

A Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) flaw was found in podman. This issue may allow a malicious user to replace a normal file in a volume with a symlink while exporting the volume, allowing for access to arbitrary files on the host file system.

CVSS Score

6.8

Medium

EPSS Score

0.1

Exploit Probability

Published Date

2023-03-27

First Seen: 2026-01-05

📊 Relative Risk Intelligence

This CVE is Lower Risk - more severe than 48.8% of all 330,193 vulnerabilities in our database.

#169,083

Below average severity

Severity Percentile

🎯 CISA SSVC Assessment Updated: Feb 24, 2025

🔍 Exploitation Status

None

No known exploits

⚙️ Automatable

Requires human interaction

💥 Technical Impact

Total

Complete system compromise possible

SSVC data provided by CISA

Last Modified 2025-02-24

Source NVD 🔗

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

CWE IDs (Weakness Types)

CWE-367

📦 Affected Products 3

Vendor	Product	Status	Affected Versions
redhat	enterprise_linux	Affected	v8.0
redhat	enterprise_linux	Affected	v9.0
podman_project	podman	Affected	v-

🔗 References 1

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2168256

Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory

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