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CVE-2019-18466

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-18466 is a vulnerability in Podman (libpod before 1.6.0) where a symlink resolution issue during a container-to-host copy operation can lead to arbitrary file overwrites. An attacker could craft a malicious container image containing specific symlinks, which, when copied by a user, could overwrite existing host files with other host files. Rated as MEDIUM severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) to achieve high integrity impact (I:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libpod_project:libpod:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.49%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0149 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 5,758 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/containers/podman/v4Fixed in: 1.6.0
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ExtrasFixed in: podman-0:1.6.4-16.el7_8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: container-tools:rhel8-8010020191126140055.c294d161
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: podman

Vendor Advisories (2)

goGHSA-r34v-gqmw-qvgjmedium

Podman Symlink Vulnerability

May 24, 2022
redhatCVE-2019-18466Moderate

podman: resolving symlink in host filesystem leads to unexpected results of copy operation

Aug 22, 2019

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00040.html
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:4269
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
github.com / containers/libpod/commit/5c09c4d2947a759724f9d5aef6bac04317e03f7e
Patch
github.com / containers/libpod/compare/v1.5.1...v1.6.0
Patch
github.com / containers/libpod/issues/3829
ExploitThird Party Advisory