CVE-2018-10856

mediumpriority · track · 35EPSS 0.009 · 59 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.88% (59th) EPSS

CVSS 6.5 · medium

Is it mine?

6 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5.3–8.8

v2.06.5mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 6.4

v3.08.8highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 5.9

v3.05.3mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Lsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.05.3mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Lsecondary · secalert@redhat.com USexploitability 1.8 · impact 3.4

v3.08.8highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.08.1highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-732USprimaryCWE-250USCWE-732US

affected products (6)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

[UNKNOWN] podman≤ podman 0.6.1enisa_euvdEU
libpod project libpod< 0.6.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:libpod_project:libpod:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Go github.com/containers/podman< 0.6.1osvUSpkg:golang/github.com/containers/podman
Go github.com/containers/podman/v2all versionsosvUSpkg:golang/github.com/containers/podman/v2
Go github.com/containers/podman/v3all versionsosvUSpkg:golang/github.com/containers/podman/v3
Go github.com/containers/podman/v4all versionsosvUSpkg:golang/github.com/containers/podman/v4

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-wp7w-vx86-vj9hPodman Elevated Container Privileges2022-05-13ghsa · osvUS
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.
GO-2023-1962Podman Elevated Container Privileges in github.com/containers/podman2024-08-20vendor · osvUS
Podman Elevated Container Privileges in github.com/containers/podman

also known as (5)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2018-07-03modified 2026-06-17

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references (9)

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