# CVE-2019-18466: An issue was discovered in Podman in libpod before 1.6.0.

- Also known as: GO-2023-1942, GHSA-R34V-GQMW-QVGJ
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.6.0
- Published: 2019-10-28 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported
- github.com/containers/libpod (Go): fixed in 1.6.0
- github.com/containers/podman (Go): all versions
- github.com/containers/podman/v2 (Go): all versions
- github.com/containers/podman/v3 (Go): all versions
- github.com/containers/podman/v4 (Go): all versions
- github.com/containers/podman/v4 (Go): fixed in 1.6.0

## Description

An issue was discovered in Podman in libpod before 1.6.0. It resolves a symlink in the host context during a copy operation from the container to the host, because an undesired glob operation occurs. An attacker could create a container image containing particular symlinks that, when copied by a victim user to the host filesystem, may overwrite existing files with others from the host.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, github.com/containers/libpod, github.com/containers/podman or the other affected packages, upgrade to a fixed version (1.6.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1744588
- https://github.com/containers/libpod/issues/3829
- https://github.com/containers/libpod/commit/5c09c4d2947a759724f9d5aef6bac04317e03f7e
- https://github.com/containers/libpod/compare/v1.5.1...v1.6.0
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4269
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00040.html

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