Podman Desktop is a graphical tool for developing on containers and Kubernetes. Prior to 1.26.2, an unauthenticated HTTP server exposed by Podman Desktop allows any network attacker to remotely trigger denial-of-service conditions and extract sensitive information. By abusing missing connection limits and timeouts, an attacker can exhaust file descriptors and kernel memory, leading to application crash or full host freeze. Additionally, verbose error responses disclose internal paths and system details (including usernames on Windows), aiding further exploitation. The issue requires no authentication or user interaction and is exploitable over the network. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.26.2.
At this point, we already have a RPM build ready also with RHSA errata: https://errata.devel.redhat.com/advisory/details/165101, where we have a fix for this CVE. We need to dispatch this bug into appropriate state so we can ship the RPM. The cve was also patched upstream: https://github.com/podman-desktop/podman-desktop/security/advisories/GHSA-2q88-39rh-gxvv.
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Via RHSA-2026:13867 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13867