{"cve":"CVE-2026-55686","nvd":{"published":"2026-06-26T17:16:34.330","modified":"2026-10-25T17:10:00.197","status":"Analyzed","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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","score":5.3},"cwes":["CWE-61"],"references":["https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/commit/d18e44e9abb3bf5b7294aa70806e1368fdddfdd0","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"],"products":["podman_project:podman"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-25T17:50:06.907763985+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-55686","score":0.00403,"percentile":0.34276,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-q6r4-3wmg-fwcq","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-q6r4-3wmg-fwcq","summary":"Podman: WORKDIR symlink traversal vulnerability","modified":"2026-06-25T23:11:05.853972663Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/containers/podman/v5","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/containers/podman/v5","ranges":["<5.7.1"],"fixed":["5.7.1"]},{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/containers/podman/v4","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/containers/podman/v4","ranges":["<=4.9.5"],"fixed":[]},{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/containers/podman/v3","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/containers/podman/v3","ranges":["<=3.4.7"],"fixed":[]}]},{"id":"GO-2026-5568","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GO-2026-5568","summary":"Podman: WORKDIR symlink traversal vulnerability in github.com/containers/podman","modified":"2026-06-25T23:01:23.114533565Z","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":["<5.7.1"],"fixed":["5.7.1"]}]}],"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."]}