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PSA-2026-00082: Proxmox Virtual Environment: TOCTOU issue when mounting (running) containers on the host

This Proxmox advisory covers a security issue in Proxmox Virtual Environment.

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Key facts

Fixed in
pve-container 6.1.15
Advisory id
PSA-2026-00082
Source published
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Affected products & platforms

ProxmoxVirtual Environment (VE)

Description

The pct mount and pct fstrim tasks lacked protection against concurrent modifications to the container mountpoint hierarchy by a running container.

An attacker with access to a running container could win the race against the incomplete checks, resulting in mounting of attacker-controlled directories over arbitrary host paths, which could be chained into root-level code execution on the host. This issue was found internally.

Packages: pve-container.

Affected product named by the advisory: Proxmox Virtual Environment.

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Fix and mitigation

Upgrade to a fixed release named by Proxmox:

  • pve-container 6.1.15

Vendor guidance

  • Update to the fixed package versions: pve-container >= 6.1.15.

Support dates for the fixed release lines

All end-of-life dates for Proxmox VE

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