CVE-2025-22869VulnerabilityPublished 13 May 2025Updated 25 Oct 2026

Red Hat Security Advisory: podman security update

Affects Red HatSource GCVE Database

Mentioned vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-27144

Not known to be exploited : upgrade to 9.8 or 9.7 soon.

Data as of 25 Oct 2026, 19:02 UTC

Severity

High

Rated by Threat Radar · No CVSS score from NVD or the CNA

EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 60% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch: Available – fixed in 9.8, 9.7

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 13 May 2025
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by 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 2026-10-25.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Upgrade Red Hat to 9.8 or 9.7.

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
Red Hat Product Security Red Hat	Affected >=9.0 <9.7 >=9.6 <9.8 Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) src podman-5:5.4.0-9.el9_6.src	Fixed in 9.7 9.8

AI-suggested

Red Hat has released updated podman packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 versions prior to 9.7 and 9.8 that address these denial of service vulnerabilities. Users should apply the official security update as described in the Red Hat advisory RHSA-2025:7391. Refer to https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 for detailed update instructions. No additional mitigation is indicated or required beyond applying the vendor-provided patches.

Description

The podman tool manages pods, container images, and containers. It is part of the libpod library, which is for applications that use container pods. Container pods is a concept in Kubernetes. Security Fix(es): * go-jose: Go JOSE's Parsing Vulnerable to Denial of Service (CVE-2025-27144) * golang.org/x/crypto/ssh: Denial of Service in the Key Exchange of golang.org/x/crypto/ssh (CVE-2025-22869) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Impact

Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could result in denial of service conditions affecting podman operations, potentially disrupting container management and orchestration on affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 systems. There is no indication of privilege escalation or remote code execution. No known exploits in the wild have been reported.

Summary

This advisory covers two denial of service vulnerabilities affecting the podman tool in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. The first, CVE-2025-22869, is a denial of service in the key exchange mechanism of golang.org/x/crypto/ssh. The second, CVE-2025-27144, is a denial of service vulnerability in the parsing functionality of the Go JOSE library. Podman is part of the libpod library used for managing container pods, a Kubernetes concept. The vulnerabilities could cause podman or related container operations to be disrupted by denial of service attacks. Red Hat has released updated packages for affected versions to address these issues.

CWE-770Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (opens in a new tab)
Base weaknessLikelihood of exploit: HighCWE Top 25 (2025): #25
The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any intended restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated.
Requirements
Clearly specify the minimum and maximum expectations for capabilities, and dictate which behaviors are acceptable when resource allocation reaches limits.
Architecture and Design
Limit the amount of resources that are accessible to unprivileged users. Set per-user limits for resources. Allow the system administrator to define these limits. Be careful to avoid CWE-410.
Architecture and Design
Design throttling mechanisms into the system architecture. The best protection is to limit the amount of resources that an unauthorized user can cause to be expended.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Abuse Case (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V8.1.4 (opens in a new tab)
V13.4.1 (opens in a new tab)
V11.1.4 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
XML Ping of the Death (opens in a new tab)
Exponential Data Expansion (opens in a new tab)
Serialized Data Parameter Blowup (opens in a new tab)
Serialized Data with Nested Payloads (opens in a new tab)
Oversized Serialized Data Payloads (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

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Description

AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 14 Aug 2026, 22:03 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-770

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