Is CVE-2026-94603 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-94603?

CVE-2026-94603 has a CVSS v3 severity of CRITICAL (10).

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CVE-2026-94603

Description

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.