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.
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | Podman: WORKDIR symlink traversal vulnerability | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-61 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-06-26T16:30:41.345Z
Reserved: 2026-06-17T00:13:10.650Z
Link: CVE-2026-55686
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Updated: 2026-06-26T17:30:05Z