Directory Traversal Affecting podman-remote package, versions <4.9.5-150300.9.55.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-PODMANREMOTE-13531845
  • published11 Oct 2025
  • disclosed10 Oct 2025

Introduced: 10 Oct 2025

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

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 podman-remote to version 4.9.5-150300.9.55.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream podman-remote package and not the podman-remote package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.3 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