CVE-2025-8283

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.

This vulnerability has been rated as having a Low security impact by the Red Hat Product Security team. For an attack to be successful, the attacker needs to have control over the domains used into the host's resolv.conf and have a prior knowledge about the hostnames and connections used by the running containers. Additionally, the attacker does not have full control over the amount or sensitivity of data sent by the container to the attacker controlled host and TLS validations may avoid the container to connect to the malicious domain.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

As a proactive mitigation, configure containers to have hostnames formatted as <name>.dns.podman. This specific naming convention will prevent aardvark-dns from forwarding these queries to external search domains, thereby reducing potential exposure or unexpected network behavior associated with such queries.