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CVE-2019-25067

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-25067 is a critical remote privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Podman and Varlink versions up to 1.5.1. This flaw allows an authenticated attacker to remotely gain elevated privileges due to an unspecified API manipulation. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), it presents a significant risk, enabling full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While the exploit has been publicly disclosed, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there readily available Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB modules, and it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:1.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:varlink:varlink:1.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0232 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 17,822 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: podman
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: podman

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-25067Moderate

podman: Privilege escalation in API component

Jun 9, 2019

References

github.com / containers/podman/issues/21628
vuldb.com
vuldb.com
Third Party Advisory
exploit-db.com / exploits/47500
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry