CVE-2026-94603

critical

Podman is a tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

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.

CVSS

10.0

10.0 (CVSS v3.1)

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (security-advisories@github.com)

Timeline (UTC)

Published: 2026-10-13 17:17

Modified: 2026-10-16 16:00

NVD status: Awaiting Analysis

Last synced 1 day ago

Verified against the source API 2026-10-27 06:59 UTC

Exploitation

Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)

Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

Not reported by the source (unknown — not "none").

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-693

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.

References

https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/commit/24706290d5c974f078d8ca284026802515... security-advisories@github.com
https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/commit/3721ff82ffb44a4ceeaecc5abd3808e924... security-advisories@github.com
https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/commit/450c64426dbcff1097d3c7911d791101e3... security-advisories@github.com
https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/commit/7728ba0a90094408ad9078e36c3622a651... security-advisories@github.com
https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/commit/c74b1d37b3fb834b0de43e176565d9d8c2... security-advisories@github.com
https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/commit/ea9243e04d1db3886dc3a51ee3300ffb54... security-advisories@github.com
https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/releases/tag/v5.8.8 security-advisories@github.com
https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/releases/tag/v6.1.3 security-advisories@github.com
https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/security/advisories/GHSA-2cvf-wqm6-wr9g security-advisories@github.com

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-27 06:59 UTC · record ↗

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