Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-55686
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.003
EPSS Ranking 23.4%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.3
References
Products affected by CVE-2026-55686
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:3.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:3.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:3.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:3.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:3.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:3.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:3.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:3.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:3.2.2
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:3.2.3
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:3.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:3.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:3.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:3.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:3.4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:3.4.3
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:3.4.4
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:3.4.5
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:3.4.6
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:3.4.7
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.4.3
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.4.4
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.6.1
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.6.2
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.7.1
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.7.2
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.8.0
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.8.1
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.8.2
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.8.3
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.9.0
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.9.1
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.9.2
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.9.3
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.9.4
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.9.5
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:5.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:5.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:5.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:5.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:5.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:5.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:5.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:5.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:5.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:5.2.2
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:5.2.3
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:5.2.4
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:5.2.5
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:5.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:5.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:5.3.2
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:5.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:5.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:5.4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:5.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:5.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:5.5.2
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:5.6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:5.6.1
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:5.6.2
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cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:5.7.0