CVE-2026-55686: Podman Project Podman

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Podman is a tool for managing OCI containers and pods. From 3.0.0 until 5.7.1, running a malicious container image where the WORKDIR path contains a symlink can create a directory or modify ownership on the host filesystem. Modified ownership is less likely to happen as that requires help from an untrusted/malicious process that mutates the host filesystem tree during dereferencing of the WORKDIR path, to trigger a race condition. This vulnerability is fixed in 5.7.1.

Affected products

• Podman Project Podman: from 3.0.0, before 5.7.1 (fixed in 5.7.1)

Published 2026-06-26. Last modified 2026-06-26.