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CVE-2026-39822VulnerabilityPublished Updated

Red Hat Security Advisory: podman security update

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Authoritative record:CVE-2026-39822· High 7.8

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.8 High · fixed in Red Hat package updates : patch Red Hat os soon.

Data as of 30 Oct 2026, 01:16 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
7.8High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
Patch
Available – fixed in 1.27.0-rc.2, 1.26.5, 1.25.12
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 8 Jul 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 29 Oct 2026.

What to do

Upgrade os to 1.27.0-rc.2, 1.26.5 or 1.25.12.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
Go standard libraryosAffected
  • >=1.27.0-0 <1.27.0-rc.2
Fixed in
  • 1.27.0-rc.2
Go standard libraryosAffected
  • >=1.26.0-0 <1.26.5
Fixed in
  • 1.26.5
Go standard libraryosAffected
  • <1.25.12
Fixed in
  • 1.25.12
Goospkg:golang/osOther threatsAffected
  • <1.25.12
  • >=1.26.0-0 <1.26.5
  • >=1.27.0-0 <1.27.0-rc.2
Fixed in
  • 1.25.12
  • 1.26.5
  • 1.27.0-rc.2

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AI-suggested

Red Hat has released updated podman packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and its variants to fix this vulnerability. Users should apply the provided security updates as described in the Red Hat advisory (RHSA-2026:38878) to remediate the issue. No additional mitigation steps are indicated beyond applying the official patch.

Description

A security vulnerability (CVE-2026-39822) affecting the podman tool in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 has been addressed. The flaw involves a symlink following issue in the Go os.Root function, which allows directory traversal. Podman is a container management tool that is part of the libpod library, used for managing container pods in Kubernetes environments. Red Hat has issued an important security advisory with updates to fix this vulnerability.

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