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

The remote Fedora 42 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-19f7dd07d9 advisory.

    Security update for CVE-2025-9566

    Automatic update for containers-common-0.64.2-1.fc42, podman-5.6.1-1.fc42, buildah-1.41.4-1.fc42.

    ##### **Changelog for containers-common**

    ```
    * Wed Sep 03 2025 Packit <hello@packit.dev> - 5:0.64.2-1
    - Update to 0.64.2 upstream release

    ```

    ##### **Changelog for podman**

    ```
    * Thu Sep 04 2025 Packit <hello@packit.dev> - 5:5.6.1-1
    - Update to 5.6.1 upstream release

    ```

    ##### **Changelog for buildah**

    ```
    * Thu Sep 04 2025 Packit <hello@packit.dev> - 2:1.41.4-1
    - Update to 1.41.4 upstream release

    ```


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 43 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-b93734b6b8 advisory.

    Security fix for CVE-2025-9566

    Automatic update for containers-common-0.64.2-1.fc43, buildah-1.41.4-1.fc43, podman-5.6.1-1.fc43.

    ##### **Changelog for containers-common**

    ```
    * Wed Sep 03 2025 Packit <hello@packit.dev> - 5:0.64.2-1
    - Update to 0.64.2 upstream release

    ```

    ##### **Changelog for buildah**

    ```
    * Thu Sep 04 2025 Packit <hello@packit.dev> - 2:1.41.4-1
    - Update to 1.41.4 upstream release

    ```

    ##### **Changelog for podman**

    ```
    * Thu Sep 04 2025 Packit <hello@packit.dev> - 5:5.6.1-1
    - Update to 5.6.1 upstream release

    ```


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 41 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-f9e142a4b0 advisory.

    Security fix for CVE-2025-9566

    Automatic update for containers-common-0.64.2-1.fc41, buildah-1.41.4-1.fc41, podman-5.6.1-1.fc41.

    ##### **Changelog for containers-common**

    ```
    * Wed Sep 03 2025 Packit <hello@packit.dev> - 5:0.64.2-1
    - Update to 0.64.2 upstream release

    ```

    ##### **Changelog for buildah**

    ```
    * Thu Sep 04 2025 Packit <hello@packit.dev> - 2:1.41.4-1
    - Update to 1.41.4 upstream release

    ```

    ##### **Changelog for podman**

    ```
    * Thu Sep 04 2025 Packit <hello@packit.dev> - 5:5.6.1-1
    - Update to 5.6.1 upstream release

    ```


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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 (CVE-2025-9566)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
264441	Fedora 42 : buildah / containers-common / podman (2025-19f7dd07d9)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
264427	Fedora 43 : buildah / containers-common / podman (2025-b93734b6b8)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
261824	Fedora 41 : buildah / containers-common / podman (2025-f9e142a4b0)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
261583	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-9566	Nessus	Misc.	high

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