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CVE-2026-55686

26
FAUCET Score

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.

First published: Jun 26, 2026Last modified: Jun 26, 2026

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 3.0.0, < 5.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
24.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0032 is in the 14th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/containers/podman/v5Fixed in: 5.7.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-q6r4-3wmg-fwcqmedium

Podman: WORKDIR symlink traversal vulnerability

Jun 18, 2026

References

github.com / podman-container-tools/podman/commit/d18e44e9abb3bf5b7294aa70806e1368fdddfdd0
Patch
github.com / podman-container-tools/podman/security/advisories/GHSA-q6r4-3wmg-fwcq
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