CVE-2020-1726

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-02-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-552

Description

A flaw was discovered in Podman where it incorrectly allows containers when created to overwrite existing files in volumes, even if they are mounted as read-only. When a user runs a malicious container or a container based on a malicious image with an attached volume that is used for the first time, it is possible to trigger the flaw and overwrite files in the volume.This issue was introduced in version 1.6.0.

Affected products

Libpod Project Libpod: 1.6.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 8.0
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18: 4.3

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00097.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00103.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0680
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1726
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00097.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00103.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0680
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1726

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