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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

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Vendor Product Default status Versions
podman-container-tools podman affected
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>= 3.0.0, < 5.7.1 affected —

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Advisories
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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-q6r4-3wmg-fwcq Podman: WORKDIR symlink traversal vulnerability
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https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/commit/d18e44e9abb3bf5b7294aa70806e1368fdddfdd0 cve-icon
https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/security/advisories/GHSA-q6r4-3wmg-fwcq cve-icon
History

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:45:00 +0000

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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
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N'}

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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-06-26T18:31:36.842Z

Reserved: 2026-06-17T00:13:10.650Z

Link: CVE-2026-55686

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Updated: 2026-06-26T17:30:05Z

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