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SCA: security update for github.com/containers/podman/v5 (GHSA-hc8w-h2mf-hp59)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 440359

Description

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

 - Podman is a tool for managing OCI containers and pods. Versions 4.8.0 through 5.8.1 contain a command
 injection vulnerability in the HyperV machine backend in pkg/machine/hyperv/stubber.go, where the VM image
 path is inserted into a PowerShell double-quoted string without sanitization, allowing $() subexpression
 injection. Because PowerShell evaluates subexpressions inside double-quoted strings before executing the
 outer command, an attacker who can control the VM image path through a crafted machine name or image
 directory can execute arbitrary PowerShell commands with the privileges of the Podman process. On typical
 Windows installations this means SYSTEM-level code execution, and only Windows is affected as the code is
 exclusive to the HyperV backend. This issue has been patched in version 5.8.2. (CVE-2026-33414)

Solution

Update the github.com/containers/podman/v5 library and its related packages to version 5.8.2 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hc8w-h2mf-hp59

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 440359

Version: Revision 1.11

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 4/15/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.16

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-33414

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Threat Score: 4

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/14/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/14/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-33414

cwe: CWE-78