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CVE-2026-57231

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

Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:464560fef370cfb3817d7f0f19b86143aa158d641cd69f95ca1022d63fe745ec

Known exploited

Not asserted

Disputed

Stale source

Conflicts

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

cwe · 2 assertions

{"cweId":"CWE-200","description":"CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
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{"cweId":"CWE-668","description":"CWE-668: Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
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Affected products and versions

1 source assertion

{"product":"podman","vendor":"podman-container-tools","versions":[{"status":"affected","version":">= 1.8.1, < 5.8.4"}]}

cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
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Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion

{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"LOW","attackVector":"NETWORK","availabilityImpact":"NONE","baseScore":7.5,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","confidentialityImpact":"HIGH","integrityImpact":"NONE","privilegesRequired":"NONE","scope":"UNCHANGED","userInteraction":"NONE","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
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CWE assertions

2 source assertions

{"cweId":"CWE-200","description":"CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
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{"cweId":"CWE-668","description":"CWE-668: Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
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Source references

2 source assertions

{"name":"https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/commit/6c431b73dbf8e4b20b778644d7a80caebdb75050","tags":["x_refsource_MISC"],"url":"https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/commit/6c431b73dbf8e4b20b778644d7a80caebdb75050"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
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{"name":"https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/security/advisories/GHSA-4hq8-gpf5-8p68","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM"],"url":"https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/security/advisories/GHSA-4hq8-gpf5-8p68"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
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Attribution and limitations

CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

Provider severity values are preserved separately. Baitaphish does not convert them into a risk rating, infer affected products, or treat EPSS as observed exploitation.

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