INFSA-2025:20909: podman security update

Information about definition

Identificator: INFSA-2025:20909

Type: security

Release date: 2025-12-01 14:19:12 UTC

Information about package

The podman tool manages pods, container images, and containers. It is part of the libpod library, which is for applications that use container pods. Container pods is a concept in Kubernetes.

Vulnerabilities description

  • CVE-2025-9566

    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.

  • CVE-2025-47907

    A flaw was found in database/sql. Concurrent queries can produce unexpected results when a query is cancelled during a Scan method call on returned Rows, creating a race condition. This vulnerability allows an attacker who can initiate and cancel queries to trigger this condition, possibly leading to inconsistent data being returned to the application.

Severity level

CVE Score CVSS 2.0 Score CVSS 3.x Score CVSS 4.0
no information 7.0 no information
NIST — CVE-2025-9566
no information 8.1 no information
Critical, important, moderate, low

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