CVE-2026-55686

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-55686
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-55686.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-55686
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2026-06-26T16:30:41.345Z
Modified
2026-07-08T08:13:46.060435438Z
Severity
  • 5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
Podman: WORKDIR symlink traversal vulnerability
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/55xxx/CVE-2026-55686.json",
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-61"
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/podman-container-tools/podman

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman
Events
Introduced
5b2585f5e91ca148f068cefa647c23f8b1ade622
Fixed
f845d14e941889ba4c071f35233d09b29d363c75
Fixed
d18e44e9abb3bf5b7294aa70806e1368fdddfdd0
Database specific 
{
    "source": [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "3.0.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "5.7.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-55686.json"