Directory Traversal Affecting containers-common package, versions <1:0.1.40-6.rhaos4.4.el8


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.67% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-CONTAINERSCOMMON-18595790
  • published8 Aug 2026
  • disclosed26 Mar 2020

Introduced: 26 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-10696  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 containers-common to version 1:0.1.40-6.rhaos4.4.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHBA-2020:0582.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream containers-common package and not the containers-common package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

A path traversal flaw was found in Buildah in versions before 1.14.5. This flaw allows an attacker to trick a user into building a malicious container image hosted on an HTTP(s) server and then write files to the user's system anywhere that the user has permissions.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1