podman: Podman is a tool for managing OCI containers and pods
CVE-2026-55686 is fixed in 2 products on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2026-55686, released June 27, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.
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.
Where it's fixed
| Product | Fixed in | Fix | Released |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | |||
| govulncheck-vulndb · opensuse-leap 16.0 | 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 | OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1 | Jul 30, 2026 |
| podman · Debian 14 | 5.8.1+ds1-2 | DEBIAN-CVE-2026-55686 | Jun 27, 2026 |
| podman · opensuse-leap 16.0 | 5.4.2-160000.6.1 | OPENSUSE-SU-2026:22089-1 | Nov 7, 2026 |
| podman · sles 15.6 | 4.9.5-150500.3.78.1 | SUSE-SU-2026:3536-1 | Aug 7, 2026 |
| podman · sles 15.7 | 4.9.5-150500.3.78.1 | SUSE-SU-2026:3536-1 | Aug 7, 2026 |
| podman · sles 16.0 | 5.4.2-160000.6.1 | SUSE-SU-2026:24233-1 | Nov 7, 2026 |
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