{"cve":"CVE-2025-9566","nvd":{"published":"2025-09-05T20:15:36.727","modified":"2026-10-08T21:17:50.850","status":"Deferred","description":"There's a vulnerability in podman where an attacker may use the kube play command to overwrite host files when the kube file container a Secrete or a ConfigMap volume mount and such volume contains a symbolic link to a host file path. In a successful attack, the attacker can only control the target file to be overwritten but not the content to be written into the file.\n\nBinary-Affected: podman\nUpstream-version-introduced: v4.0.0\nUpstream-version-fixed: v5.6.1","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H","score":8.1},"cwes":["CWE-22"],"references":["https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:15692","https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:15712","https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:16158","https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:16163","https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2025:4782"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:08:41.295252406+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-9566","score":0.01159,"percentile":0.66898,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-wp3j-xq48-xpjw","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-wp3j-xq48-xpjw","summary":"podman kube play symlink traversal vulnerability","modified":"2026-09-28T03:45:09.549539910Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/containers/podman/v5","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/containers/podman/v5","ranges":["<5.6.1"],"fixed":["5.6.1"]},{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/containers/podman/v4","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/containers/podman/v4","ranges":["<=4.9.5"],"fixed":[]}]},{"id":"GO-2025-3935","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GO-2025-3935","summary":"podman kube play symlink traversal vulnerability in github.com/containers/podman","modified":"2026-02-04T04:11:40.478124Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/containers/podman","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/containers/podman","ranges":["all versions"],"fixed":[]},{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/containers/podman/v2","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/containers/podman/v2","ranges":["all versions"],"fixed":[]},{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/containers/podman/v3","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/containers/podman/v3","ranges":["all versions"],"fixed":[]},{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/containers/podman/v4","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/containers/podman/v4","ranges":["all versions"],"fixed":[]},{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/containers/podman/v5","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/containers/podman/v5","ranges":["<5.6.1"],"fixed":["5.6.1"]}]}],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}