CVE-2025-8283

Netavark: podman: netavark may resolve hostnames to unexpected hosts

State
Published
Severity
3.7 Low
Published
Jul 28, 2025
Updated
Sep 1, 2026
Reserved
Jul 28, 2025

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Description

A vulnerability was found in the netavark package, a network stack for containers used with Podman. Due to dns.podman search domain being removed, netavark may return external servers if a valid A/AAAA record is sent as a response. When creating a container with a given name, this name will be used as the hostname for the container itself, as the podman's search domain is not added anymore the container is using the host's resolv.conf, and the DNS resolver will try to look into the search domains contained on it. If one of the domains contain a name with the same hostname as the running container, the connection will forward to unexpected external servers.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.13.7 LowCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Nredhat

Weaknesses

  • CWE-15 External Control of System or Configuration Setting

Affected Products

ProductVersions
netavark
  • before 1.15.1Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat
      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat
        Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat
          Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Red Hat
            Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Red Hat

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