Podman is a tool for managing OCI containers and pods. Versions 4.8.0 through 5.8.1 contain a command injection vulnerability in the HyperV machine backend in pkg/machine/hyperv/stubber.go, where the VM image path is inserted into a PowerShell double-quoted string without sanitization, allowing $() subexpression injection. Because PowerShell evaluates subexpressions inside double-quoted strings before executing the outer command, an attacker who can control the VM image path through a crafted machine name or image directory can execute arbitrary PowerShell commands with the privileges of the Podman process. On typical Windows installations this means SYSTEM-level code execution, and only Windows is affected as the code is exclusive to the HyperV backend. This issue has been patched in version 5.8.2.
Data: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Published as the sources state it, in English.
| Vendor | Product | Versions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| containers | podman | >= 4.8.0, < 5.8.2 | |
| podman project | podman | 4.8.0 – < 5.8.2 | |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | — | |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | — | |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | — | |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Hardened Images | all versions | |
| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | — |
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