Path traversal in Podman - CVE-2025-11395

 

Path traversal in Podman - CVE-2025-11395

Published: September 18, 2026


Vulnerability identifier: #VU150893
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-11395
CWE-ID: CWE-22
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to overwrite attacker-chosen files and modify their attributes.

The vulnerability exists due to improper archive extraction in storage/pkg/archive when extracting a maliciously crafted tar archive. A remote attacker can provide a maliciously crafted tar archive to overwrite attacker-chosen files and modify their attributes.

User interaction is required to extract the crafted archive.


Affected software

Podman

How to mitigate CVE-2025-11395

Install security update from vendor's website.

Podman - addressed in versions 5.8.7, 6.1.2

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