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SCA: security update for github.com/containers/podman/v5 (GHSA-wp3j-xq48-xpjw)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 435193

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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)

Solution

Update the github.com/containers/podman/v5 library and its related packages to version 5.6.1 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wp3j-xq48-xpjw

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 435193

Version: Revision 1.27

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 9/4/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.56

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-9566

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/4/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/4/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-9566