CVE•Published 2025-09-05•Modified 2026-07-02•1 article on news•7 live references•NVD data

CVE-2025-9566

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1

8.1

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

EPSS percentile

Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 41% of all CVEs

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-22Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Description

There's a vulnerability in podman where an attacker may use the kube play command to overwrite host files when the kube file container a Secrete or a ConfigMap volume mount and such volume contains a symbolic link to a host file path. In a successful attack, the attacker can only control the target file to be overwritten but not the content to be written into the file. Binary-Affected: podman Upstream-version-introduced: v4.0.0 Upstream-version-fixed: v5.6.1

Timeline

Published 2025-09-05

Modified 2026-07-02

External references

NVD MITRE Exploit-DB GitHub PoC Sploitus trickest/cve VulnCheck

Search for exposed instances

Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).

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Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.

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Shodan report

vuln:CVE-2025-9566

Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.

Censys

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