Directory Traversal Affecting podman-docker package, versions <4:4.9.4-16.rhaos4.16.el8


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.01% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-PODMANDOCKER-15523892
  • published13 Mar 2026
  • disclosed4 Sept 2025

Introduced: 4 Sep 2025

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

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 podman-docker to version 4:4.9.4-16.rhaos4.16.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2025:16724.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream podman-docker package and not the podman-docker package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 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