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CVE-2026-33414 (GCVE-0-2026-33414)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2026-04-14 22:42 – Updated: 2026-06-30 12:07
VLAI
Title
PowerShell Command Injection in Podman HyperV Machine
Summary
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.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
6 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/containers/podman/security/adv… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/containers/podman/commit/571c8… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-33414 | vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2458522 | issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/v… | x_sadp-csaf-vex |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8211 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
Impacted products
6 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| containers | podman |
Affected:
>= 4.8.0, < 5.8.2
|
|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Hardened Images |
cpe:/a:redhat:hummingbird:1 |
|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 |
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10 |
|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 |
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 |
|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 |
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 |
|
| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 |
cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4 |
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CVE-2026-33414 (GCVE-0-2026-33414)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-14 22:42 – Updated: 2026-06-30 12:07
VLAI
Title
PowerShell Command Injection in Podman HyperV Machine
Summary
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.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
6 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/containers/podman/security/adv… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/containers/podman/commit/571c8… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-33414 | vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2458522 | issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT |
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| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8211 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
Impacted products
6 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| containers | podman |
Affected:
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cpe:/a:redhat:hummingbird:1 |
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cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10 |
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cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 |
|
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cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 |
|
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cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4 |
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