Detections
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CVE-2026-94603
critical
Description
Podman is a tool for managing OCI containers and pods. From 4.4.0 until 5.8.8 and 6.1.3, podman run treats an image carrying the io.podman.annotations.checkpoint.runtime.name annotation as a checkpoint and silently ignores user-supplied container creation restrictions such as --cap-drop=ALL, allowing image-controlled checkpoint state to select weaker sandbox settings and capabilities. Rootless containers are not affected because checkpoint and restore are unavailable in that mode. This issue is fixed in versions 5.8.8 and 6.1.3.
References
https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/security/advisories/GHSA-2cvf-wqm6-wr9g
https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/releases/tag/v6.1.3
https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/releases/tag/v5.8.8
https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/commit/ea9243e04d1db3886dc3a51ee3300ffb547cfc02
https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/commit/c74b1d37b3fb834b0de43e176565d9d8c254b627
https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/commit/7728ba0a90094408ad9078e36c3622a651d49616
https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/commit/450c64426dbcff1097d3c7911d791101e3d16f4c
https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/commit/3721ff82ffb44a4ceeaecc5abd3808e924a6b669
https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/commit/24706290d5c974f078d8ca284026802515f28e92