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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

mediumCVSS 5.3CVE-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.

Details

Source
NVD Recent CVEs (US · database · site)
Severity
medium — CVSS 5.3
Published
2026-06-26
Last updated
2026-06-26
Exploitation
Not in CISA KEV at last sync

Original advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-55686

Exploitation outlook

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Referenced CVEs

CVECSIRTS overviewExternal
CVE-2026-55686coverage & exploitation statusNVD · CVE.org

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