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CVE-2026-55686

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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.

CVSS Score
5.3
Medium
EPSS Score
-
Published Date
2026-06-26
First Seen: 2026-06-27
📊 Relative Risk Intelligence

This CVE is Lower Risk - more severe than 19.7% of all 330,193 vulnerabilities in our database.

#265,260
Below average severity
Severity Percentile
đŸŽ¯ CISA SSVC Assessment Updated: Jun 26, 2026
🔍 Exploitation Status
Poc
Proof-of-concept available
⚙ī¸ Automatable
YES
Can be exploited automatically
đŸ’Ĩ Technical Impact
Partial
Limited system impact
SSVC data provided by CISA
Last Modified 2026-06-26
Source NVD 🔗
CVSS Vector 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE IDs (Weakness Types)
CWE-61

đŸ“Ļ Affected Products 1

Vendor Product Status Affected Versions
podman_project podman Affected
> 3.0.0 < 5.7.1

🔗 References 2

https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/com...
Patch
https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/sec...
Exploit Patch Vendor Advisory

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