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CVE-2026-55686
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.3
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2026-06-26T17:16:34.330 · Last modified 2026-06-26T19:53:30.177

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 products

podman_project — podman

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References

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