Red Hat Security AdvisoryRHSA-2026:69961
podman security update
Released 2026-09-22 · Red Hat rating Important · View on Red Hat →
Fixed in
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) podman-6:5.8.2-7.el9_8, podman-docker-6:5.8.2-7.el9_8, podman-plugins-6:5.8.2-7.el9_8 +2
Fixes 9 records
Priority HIGH 66
The tar extraction routines in moby/go-archive (Unpack, UnpackLayer, Untar/UntarUncompressed, and the ApplyLayer helpers) do not confine filesystem operations to the destination directory.
CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.1· Local · No auth · User interaction · EPSS 0.0044 · Published 2026-08-18 · Partial fix · 0.3.0, 0.38.0 +3 CWE-59
Priority MEDIUM 53
The 'podman quadlet install --replace' command opens the existing destination file with O_CREATE|O_WRONLY but omits O_TRUNC.
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.2· Local · Low privileges · User interaction · EPSS 0.0013 · Published 2026-08-13 · Fixed in 7:5.8.2-9.el10_2, 6:5.8.2-7.el9_8 +1 CWE-459
Priority MEDIUM 46
A malicious SSH peer could send unsolicited global request responses to fill an internal buffer, blocking the connection's read loop.
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1· Network · No auth · No interaction · EPSS 0.00683 · Published 2026-05-22 · Partial fix · 0.52.0 CWE-119
Priority MEDIUM 40
Handshake messages, such as KeyUpdate, are always considered as state-advancing, regardless of whether a handshake has been completed or not.
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5· Network · No auth · No interaction · EPSS 0.00568 · Published 2026-08-13 · Partial fix · 1.25.13, 1.26.6 +1 CWE-770
Priority MEDIUM 40
Previously, DecodeElement would reset the depth counter causing it to never fire; this could lead to stack exhaustion.
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5· Network · No auth · No interaction · EPSS 0.00568 · Published 2026-08-13 · Partial fix · 1.25.13, 1.26.6 +1 CWE-770
Priority MEDIUM 40
When a server is configured to support unencrypted HTTP/2, it reads a few bytes from each new connection to see if they contain the HTTP/2 client preface.
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5· Network · No auth · No interaction · EPSS 0.00568 · Published 2026-08-13 · Partial fix · 1.25.13, 1.26.6 +1 CWE-770
Priority MEDIUM 40
Enforce a recursion limit in Unmarshal to prevent stack exhaustion when parsing deeply-nested, recursive structures.
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5· Network · No auth · No interaction · EPSS 0.00568 · Published 2026-08-13 · Partial fix · 1.25.13, 1.26.6 +1 CWE-400
Priority LOW 27
Previously, resolving relative paths containing parent directory ('..') segments performed string conversions and buffer rewrites on each step, resulting in quadratic time complexity and high memory allocation overhead.
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.9· Network · No auth · No interaction · EPSS 0.0055 · Published 2026-08-13 · Partial fix · 1.25.13, 1.26.6 +1 CWE-407
Priority LOW 27
Previously, pathological inputs could close an unescaped '/' early, allowing for attack-controlled data to inject arbitrary content, potentially leading to XSS.
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1· Network · No auth · User interaction · EPSS 0.0031 · Published 2026-08-13 · Partial fix · 1.25.13, 1.26.6 +1 CWE-79