There's a vulnerability in podman where an attacker may use the kube play command to overwrite host files when the kube file container a Secrete or a ConfigMap volume mount and such volume contains a symbolic link to a host file path. In a successful attack, the attacker can only control the target file to be overwritten but not the content to be written into the file.
Binary-Affected: podman
Upstream-version-introduced: v4.0.0
Upstream-version-fixed: v5.6.1
Published: 2025-09-05
CVSS: 8.1
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Download Exploit for CVE-2025-9566 here:
Tip: Download official Tor Browser at https://www.torproject.org/download/ to access .onion links.
https://augustaverburg.nl/exploit-131-cve-2023-36730/
https://augustaverburg.nl/exploit-123-cve-2025-64720/