CVE-2026-94603 (GCVE-0-2026-94603)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-13 16:51 – Updated: 2026-10-13 20:21
VLAI
Title
Podman: The `podman run` command can be instructed to disable almost all sandboxing by image annotation
Summary
Podman is a tool for managing OCI containers and pods. From 4.4.0 until 5.8.8 and 6.1.3, podman run treats an image carrying the io.podman.annotations.checkpoint.runtime.name annotation as a checkpoint and silently ignores user-supplied container creation restrictions such as --cap-drop=ALL, allowing image-controlled checkpoint state to select weaker sandbox settings and capabilities. Rootless containers are not affected because checkpoint and restore are unavailable in that mode. This issue is fixed in versions 5.8.8 and 6.1.3.
Severity
10 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-10-13 20:19 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-693 - Protection Mechanism Failure
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7675 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
podman-container-tools podman Affected: >= 4.4.0, < 5.8.8
Affected: >= 6.0.0, < 6.1.3
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