# CVE-2018-10856: It has been discovered that podman before version 0.6.1 does not drop capabilities when executing a container as a non-root user.

- Also known as: GHSA-WP7W-VX86-VJ9H, GO-2023-1962
- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.6.1
- Published: 2018-07-02 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- \[UNKNOWN\] podman: podman 0.6.1
- github.com/containers/podman (Go): fixed in 0.6.1
- github.com/containers/podman/v2 (Go): all versions
- github.com/containers/podman/v3 (Go): all versions
- github.com/containers/podman/v4 (Go): all versions

## Description

It has been discovered that podman before version 0.6.1 does not drop capabilities when executing a container as a non-root user. This results in unnecessary privileges being granted to the container.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on \[UNKNOWN\] podman, github.com/containers/podman, github.com/containers/podman/v2 or the other affected packages, upgrade to a fixed version (0.6.1) per the references below.
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## References

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10856
- https://github.com/projectatomic/libpod/commit/bae80a0b663925ec751ad2784ca32989403cdc24
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2037

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