CVE-2019-10152

HIGH
7.2
CVSS Score
Published: July 30, 2019 at 10:07 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:10 AM UTC
3 products affected across 3 vendorsLeapLibpodPodman

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Severity
HIGH7.2
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 1.4.0
Affected range stops below 1.4.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
All versions
Vendor states this is fixed in 1.4.0 (unaffected)

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (5)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00001.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10152
x_refsource_CONFIRMRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/containers/libpod/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES.md#140
x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/containers/libpod/issues/3211
x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/containers/libpod/pull/3214

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-22CWE-59

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