CVE-2026-57231 (GCVE-0-2026-57231)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-06-26 16:29
Modified
2026-06-27 02:41
CWE
  • CWE-200 - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
  • CWE-668 - Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere
Summary
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
podman-container-tools podman Version: >= 1.8.1, < 5.8.4
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