CVE-2026-94603

critical

Assigned by CNA: github_m

Published 2026-10-13 · Modified 2026-10-13

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CVSS v3

10.0

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

98%

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.

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OS impact

Debian Mixed 3 releases

Version	Package	Status	Fixed in
trixie	`podman`	Affected	—
sid	`podman`	Fixed	`5.8.6+ds1-3`
forky	`podman`	Affected	—

Alpine Fixed 1 release

Version	Package	Status	Fixed in
v3.24	`podman`	Fixed	`5.8.8-r0`

SUSE Tracked 1 release

Version	Package	Status	Fixed in
—	—	Unknown	—

References

CWEs

CWE-693

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.