Directory Traversal Affecting podman package, versions <5.8.3-r0


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.18% (8th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE324-PODMAN-17328664
  • published13 Jun 2026
  • disclosed21 Aug 2026

Introduced: 13 Jun 2026

CVE-2026-44517  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.24 podman to version 5.8.3-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream podman package and not the podman package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.24 relevant fixed versions and status.

Buildah is a tool that facilitates building OCI images. From 1.38.1 until 1.43.2 and 1.44.0, TempDirForURL in define/types.go does not securely confine Git repository subdirectories to the downloaded build context, and downloadToDirectory and stdinToDirectory can follow a Dockerfile symlink left by a partially extracted tar archive. A malicious server supplying a Git repository or tar archive can cause files outside the build context directory to be included in the context or copied into the build. This issue is fixed in versions 1.43.2 and 1.44.0.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1