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high 7.5

CVE-2019-10152 json

Podman Path Traversal Vulnerability leads to arbitrary file read/write

published 2019-07-30 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-rh5f-2w6r-q7vj , GO-2023-1927 , EUVD-2022-5173

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 40%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A path traversal vulnerability has been discovered in podman before version 1.4.0 in the way it handles symlinks inside containers. An attacker who has compromised an existing container can cause arbitrary files on the host filesystem to be read/written when an administrator tries to copy a file from/to the container.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/containers/podman 1.4.0
  • libpod_project libpod 1.4.0
  • podman RHEL 7 EXTRAS_OTHER 1.4.4-2.el7
  • podman-docker RHEL 7 EXTRAS_OTHER 1.4.4-2.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2019:1907

  • slirp4netns SLE Module for Containers 15 SP1 0.3.0-3.3.3
  • libcontainers-common SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 20190401-3.3.5
  • fuse3 SLE Module for Containers 15 SP1 3.6.1-3.3.8
  • podman SLE Module for Containers 15 SP1 1.4.4-4.8.1
  • fuse-overlayfs SLE Module for Containers 15 SP1 0.4.1-3.3.8

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2019:2223-1

  • libcontainers-common openSUSE Tumbleweed 20210626-5.1
  • podman openSUSE Tumbleweed 3.3.1-2.1
  • slirp4netns openSUSE Leap 15.1 0.3.0-lp151.2.3.1
  • libcontainers-common openSUSE Leap 15.1 20190401-lp151.2.3.1
  • fuse3 openSUSE Leap 15.1 3.6.1-lp151.2.1
  • podman openSUSE Leap 15.1 1.4.4-lp151.3.3.1
  • fuse-overlayfs openSUSE Leap 15.1 0.4.1-lp151.2.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10931-1openSUSE-SU-2024:11177-1openSUSE-SU-2019:2044-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-10152 updated cvss 7.5

podman: Improper symlink resolution allows access to host files when executing `podman cp` on running containers

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras podman 1.4.4-2.el7, podman-docker 1.4.4-2.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:1907
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 podman, podman-tests, podman-docker, podman-remote, podman-gvproxy, podman-plugins, +2 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 podman Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 podman, podman-tests, podman-docker, podman-remote, podman-gvproxy, podman-plugins, +2 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 40% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 2.6 AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/containers/podman
<1.4.0
1.4.0

Affected products

  • Podman podman

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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