CVE-2026-55686

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.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

26 Jun 2026, 19:53

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time Podman Project podman
Podman Project
CPE cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References () https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/commit/d18e44e9abb3bf5b7294aa70806e1368fdddfdd0 - () https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/commit/d18e44e9abb3bf5b7294aa70806e1368fdddfdd0 - Patch
References () https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/security/advisories/GHSA-q6r4-3wmg-fwcq - () https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/security/advisories/GHSA-q6r4-3wmg-fwcq - Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

26 Jun 2026, 19:16

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References () https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/security/advisories/GHSA-q6r4-3wmg-fwcq - () https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/security/advisories/GHSA-q6r4-3wmg-fwcq -

26 Jun 2026, 17:16

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-06-26 17:16

Updated : 2026-06-26 19:53


NVD link : CVE-2026-55686

Mitre link : CVE-2026-55686

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-55686


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Products Affected

podman_project

  • podman
CWE
CWE-61

UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following