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CVE-2019-18466
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2019-10-28 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-59
Description
An issue was discovered in Podman in libpod before 1.6.0. It resolves a symlink in the host context during a copy operation from the container to the host, because an undesired glob operation occurs. An attacker could create a container image containing particular symlinks that, when copied by a victim user to the host filesystem, may overwrite existing files with others from the host.
Affected products
- Libpod Project Libpod: before 1.6.0 — fixed in 1.6.0
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Libpod Project Libpod 1.6.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00040.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4269
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1744588
- https://github.com/containers/libpod/commit/5c09c4d2947a759724f9d5aef6bac04317e03f7e
- https://github.com/containers/libpod/compare/v1.5.1...v1.6.0
- https://github.com/containers/libpod/issues/3829
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00040.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4269
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1744588
- https://github.com/containers/libpod/commit/5c09c4d2947a759724f9d5aef6bac04317e03f7e
- https://github.com/containers/libpod/compare/v1.5.1...v1.6.0
- https://github.com/containers/libpod/issues/3829
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