Directory Traversal Affecting prometheus-podman-exporter package, versions <1.18.0-r2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-PROMETHEUSPODMANEXPORTER-12549163
  • published6 Sept 2025
  • disclosed5 Sept 2025

Introduced: 5 Sep 2025

NewCVE-2025-9566  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard prometheus-podman-exporter to version 1.18.0-r2 or higher.

NVD Description

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

There's a vulnerability in podman where an attacker may use the kube play command to overwrite host files when the kube file container a Secrete or a ConfigMap volume mount and such volume contains a symbolic link to a host file path. In a successful attack, the attacker can only control the target file to be overwritten but not the content to be written into the file.

Binary-Affected: podman Upstream-version-introduced: v4.0.0 Upstream-version-fixed: v5.6.1

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1