PT-2026-52554 · Podman · Podman

Published 2026-06-25 · Updated 2026-06-26 · CVE-2026-57231

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Podman versions 1.8.1 through 5.8.4

Description A malicious container image can trick Podman into leaking host environment variables into the container. This occurs when an image contains an Env entry consisting of a key without a value. Furthermore, using an asterisk (*) as a glob operator allows the exfiltration of all environment variables set in the session from which the container is launched, even if their exact names are unknown.

Recommendations Update Podman to version 5.8.4 or 6.0.0.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

CWE-668

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-57231

Affected Products

Podman

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-57231 · Security Note
• https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/commit/6c431b73dbf8e4b20b778644d7a80caebdb75050 · Note
• https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/security/advisories/GHSA-4hq8-gpf5-8p68 · Note
• https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/releases/tag/v6.0.0 · Reddit Post