CVE-2026-55686
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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Description
Podman: WORKDIR symlink traversal vulnerability
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/containers/podman/v5 | <5.7.1 | 5.7.1 |
| Go | github.com/containers/podman/v4 | <=4.9.5 | |
| Go | github.com/containers/podman/v3 | <=3.4.7 | |
References
- https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/security/advisories/GHSA-q6r4-3wmg-fwcq
- https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/commit/7ce2e00ab140c11a68301f0b161f51984131a858
- https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/commit/d18e44e9abb3bf5b7294aa70806e1368fdddfdd0
- https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.