Podman Project maintains a container-management platform that has become prominent in containerized deployment and orchestration, particularly as an alternative to Docker in environments where daemonless operation is prioritized. The recurring vulnerability exposure centers on access-control and information-disclosure weaknesses—including authorization flaws, path traversal, and sensitive-information handling—that arise from the complexities of managing container isolation, privileged operations, and filesystem interactions. Defenders should monitor Podman releases for patches affecting container-escape and privilege-escalation vectors; live severity, exploitation, and exposure counts are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Podman Project over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (17 CVEs).
17 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2026-57231HIGH Podman is a tool for managing OCI containers and pods. From 1.8.1 until 5.8.4, a container image that contains a environment variable with just a key and no value can trick podman | Jun 26, 2026 | 7.5 | 36 | NO | NO |
CVE-2026-33414HIGH Podman is a tool for managing OCI containers and pods. Versions 4.8.0 through 5.8.1 contain a command injection vulnerability in the HyperV machine backend in pkg/machine/hyperv/st | Apr 14, 2026 | 7.8 | 29 | NO | NO |
CVE-2019-25067HIGH A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Podman and Varlink 1.5.1. This affects an unknown part of the component API. The manipulation leads to Remote Privil | Jun 9, 2022 | 8.8 | 28 | NO | NO |
CVE-2026-55686MEDIUM 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 | Jun 26, 2026 | 5.3 | 26 | NO | NO |
CVE-2022-2738HIGH The version of podman as released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras via RHSA-2022:2190 advisory included an incorrect version of podman missing the fix for CVE-2020-8945, which | Sep 1, 2022 | 7.5 | 25 | NO | NO |
CVE-2022-1227HIGH A privilege escalation flaw was found in Podman. This flaw allows an attacker to publish a malicious image to a public registry. Once this image is downloaded by a potential victim | Apr 29, 2022 | 8.8 | 25 | NO | NO |
CVE-2022-2989HIGH An incorrect handling of the supplementary groups in the Podman container engine might lead to the sensitive information disclosure or possible data modification if an attacker has | Sep 13, 2022 | 7.1 | 24 | NO | NO |
CVE-2024-3056HIGH A flaw was found in Podman. This issue may allow an attacker to create a specially crafted container that, when configured to share the same IPC with at least one other container, | Aug 2, 2024 | 7.7 | 21 | NO | NO |
CVE-2023-0778MEDIUM A Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) flaw was found in podman. This issue may allow a malicious user to replace a normal file in a volume with a symlink while exporting the volume, | Mar 27, 2023 | 6.8 | 21 | NO | NO |
CVE-2022-4122MEDIUM A vulnerability was found in buildah. Incorrect following of symlinks while reading .containerignore and .dockerignore results in information disclosure. | Dec 8, 2022 | 5.3 | 21 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (17 CVEs).
An overview of all social media posts that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Podman Project.
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