Vulnerability · Published Jul 28, 2025 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2025-8283Netavark: podman: netavark may resolve hostnames to unexpected hosts

Low 3.7

In plain English

A low-severity security flaw in netavark. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 30% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)3.7Low
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 69.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSnetavarkno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-8283
Ubuntu:25.10netavarkno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-8283
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSnetavarkno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-8283
Ubuntu:26.10netavarkno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-8283

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
netavark 0 – before 1.15.1
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 see references
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 see references
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 see references
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 see references
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 see references
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 see references

Weakness: CWE-15 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

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