CVE-2026-57231Podman is a tool for managing OCI containers and pods.
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Podman is a tool for managing OCI containers and pods. From 1.8.1 until 5.8.4, a container image that contains a environment variable with just a key and no value can trick podman into passing that variable from the host into the container. This is made worse by the fact that using an asterisk (*) will cause podman to pass all host variables into the container. So essentially a malicious image can exfiltrate all podman environment variables that are set in the session from where the container is launched. This vulnerability is fixed in 5.8.4 and 6.0.0.
- CVSS
- 7.5 HIGH (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-200, CWE-668
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- Not given
- NVD analysis
- Analyzed
- Record last updated
- Jul 6, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
podman_project podman podman_project:podman | from 1.8.1 before 5.8.4; 6.0.0 | NVD |
References
- https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/commit/6c431b73dbf8e4b20b778644d7a80caebdb75050patch
- https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/security/advisories/GHSA-4hq8-gpf5-8p68patch, third-party-advisory
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