CVE-2020-1726: Libpod Project Libpod

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was discovered in Podman where it incorrectly allows containers when created to overwrite existing files in volumes, even if they are mounted as read-only. When a user runs a malicious container or a container based on a malicious image with an attached volume that is used for the first time, it is possible to trigger the flaw and overwrite files in the volume.This issue was introduced in version 1.6.0.

Affected products

• Libpod Project Libpod: version 1.6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 8.0 only
• Red Hat Openshift Container Platform: version 4.3 only

Published 2020-02-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.