diff --git a/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/Dockerfile b/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/Dockerfile
index 7f5aef9a9155..a5d1bdc905d6 100644
--- a/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/Dockerfile
+++ b/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/Dockerfile
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ ARG JAVA_EXTRA_SECURITY_DIR="/bitnami/java/extra-security"
 ARG TARGETARCH
 
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.base.name="docker.io/bitnami/minideb:bookworm" \
-      org.opencontainers.image.created="2026-05-23T07:25:59Z" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.created="2026-06-01T13:20:14Z" \
       org.opencontainers.image.description="Application packaged by Broadcom, Inc." \
       org.opencontainers.image.documentation="https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/ejbca/README.md" \
       org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/ejbca" \
@@ -29,20 +29,20 @@ RUN --mount=type=secret,id=downloads_url,env=SECRET_DOWNLOADS_URL \
     DOWNLOADS_URL=${SECRET_DOWNLOADS_URL:-${DOWNLOADS_URL}} ; \
     mkdir -p /tmp/bitnami/pkg/cache/ ; cd /tmp/bitnami/pkg/cache/ || exit 1 ; \
     COMPONENTS=( \
-      "wildfly-32.0.1-26-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-12" \
+      "wildfly-32.0.1-27-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-12" \
       "jre-21.0.11-11-1-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-12" \
-      "mysql-client-12.2.2-0-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-12" \
+      "mysql-client-12.3.2-0-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-12" \
       "ejbca-9.3.7-0-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-12" \
     ) ; \
     for COMPONENT in "${COMPONENTS[@]}"; do \
       if [ ! -f "${COMPONENT}.tar.gz" ]; then \
         curl -SsLf "https://${DOWNLOADS_URL}/${COMPONENT}.tar.gz" -O ; \
-        curl -SsLf "https://${DOWNLOADS_URL}/${COMPONENT}.tar.gz.sha256" -O ; \
       fi ; \
-      sha256sum -c "${COMPONENT}.tar.gz.sha256" ; \
+      sha256sum -c "/opt/bitnami/checksums/${COMPONENT}.tar.gz.sha256" ; \
       tar -zxf "${COMPONENT}.tar.gz" -C /opt/bitnami --strip-components=2 --no-same-owner ; \
-      rm -rf "${COMPONENT}".tar.gz{,.sha256} ; \
-    done
+      rm -rf "${COMPONENT}".tar.gz ; \
+    done ; \
+    rm -rf /opt/bitnami/checksums ;
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && \
     apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists /var/cache/apt/archives
 RUN chmod g+rwX /opt/bitnami
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ RUN /opt/bitnami/scripts/ejbca/postunpack.sh
 RUN /opt/bitnami/scripts/java/postunpack.sh
 ENV APP_VERSION="9.3.7" \
     BITNAMI_APP_NAME="ejbca" \
-    IMAGE_REVISION="12" \
+    IMAGE_REVISION="13" \
     JAVA_HOME="/opt/bitnami/java" \
     PATH="/opt/bitnami/wildfly/bin:/opt/bitnami/java/bin:/opt/bitnami/mysql/bin:/opt/bitnami/ejbca/bin:$PATH"
 
diff --git a/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/checksums/ejbca-9.3.7-0-linux-amd64-debian-12.tar.gz.sha256 b/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/checksums/ejbca-9.3.7-0-linux-amd64-debian-12.tar.gz.sha256
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2a047cc1251f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/checksums/ejbca-9.3.7-0-linux-amd64-debian-12.tar.gz.sha256
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+689914521689cf16111ef6bd36afa9d737ec77da87fb44f239b2626d14b1d774  ejbca-9.3.7-0-linux-amd64-debian-12.tar.gz
diff --git a/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/checksums/ejbca-9.3.7-0-linux-arm64-debian-12.tar.gz.sha256 b/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/checksums/ejbca-9.3.7-0-linux-arm64-debian-12.tar.gz.sha256
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..211b80874964
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/checksums/ejbca-9.3.7-0-linux-arm64-debian-12.tar.gz.sha256
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+bed41f858a8043701f6dd91f3dacfd29206de118534e53cf402760218500e2a0  ejbca-9.3.7-0-linux-arm64-debian-12.tar.gz
diff --git a/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/checksums/jre-21.0.11-11-1-linux-amd64-debian-12.tar.gz.sha256 b/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/checksums/jre-21.0.11-11-1-linux-amd64-debian-12.tar.gz.sha256
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f1872279a271
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/checksums/jre-21.0.11-11-1-linux-amd64-debian-12.tar.gz.sha256
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+190f3814d0362c10bc2373945a5fe00ff46aa2980ac2224528a32c7766a2b72d  jre-21.0.11-11-1-linux-amd64-debian-12.tar.gz
diff --git a/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/checksums/jre-21.0.11-11-1-linux-arm64-debian-12.tar.gz.sha256 b/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/checksums/jre-21.0.11-11-1-linux-arm64-debian-12.tar.gz.sha256
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..03a5b4115128
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/checksums/jre-21.0.11-11-1-linux-arm64-debian-12.tar.gz.sha256
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+08f71653cfeafd8e168835acfa95678ad52649c0b8c3512d285cedead2ea0a62  jre-21.0.11-11-1-linux-arm64-debian-12.tar.gz
diff --git a/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/checksums/mysql-client-12.3.2-0-linux-amd64-debian-12.tar.gz.sha256 b/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/checksums/mysql-client-12.3.2-0-linux-amd64-debian-12.tar.gz.sha256
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2c4b9a209395
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/checksums/mysql-client-12.3.2-0-linux-amd64-debian-12.tar.gz.sha256
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+5b884dec9384b513fa919005e7db53fc817949bcbc3e88c61e49d12af6753a08  mysql-client-12.3.2-0-linux-amd64-debian-12.tar.gz
diff --git a/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/checksums/mysql-client-12.3.2-0-linux-arm64-debian-12.tar.gz.sha256 b/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/checksums/mysql-client-12.3.2-0-linux-arm64-debian-12.tar.gz.sha256
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..dd83bcc13e29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/checksums/mysql-client-12.3.2-0-linux-arm64-debian-12.tar.gz.sha256
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+c6cd215fe18568f3015248adc87362e42edc3a9d342ec31be0ddc6e1abbf7c25  mysql-client-12.3.2-0-linux-arm64-debian-12.tar.gz
diff --git a/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/checksums/wildfly-32.0.1-27-linux-amd64-debian-12.tar.gz.sha256 b/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/checksums/wildfly-32.0.1-27-linux-amd64-debian-12.tar.gz.sha256
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..90be12f0cb5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/checksums/wildfly-32.0.1-27-linux-amd64-debian-12.tar.gz.sha256
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+840f88fc1fb8768bfa9d104fd2567a0eaa15b062b968b144c2cbf99ad4ee403c  wildfly-32.0.1-27-linux-amd64-debian-12.tar.gz
diff --git a/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/checksums/wildfly-32.0.1-27-linux-arm64-debian-12.tar.gz.sha256 b/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/checksums/wildfly-32.0.1-27-linux-arm64-debian-12.tar.gz.sha256
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..127a852a4cd9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/checksums/wildfly-32.0.1-27-linux-arm64-debian-12.tar.gz.sha256
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+103e3962f377176ec22b9e21aaee4ab75976f0282c95dd533dd0a1d24ac8121a  wildfly-32.0.1-27-linux-arm64-debian-12.tar.gz
diff --git a/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libfile.sh b/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libfile.sh
index 1c69e0e48a5d..335c1c7c9ef7 100644
--- a/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libfile.sh
+++ b/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libfile.sh
@@ -139,3 +139,40 @@ wait_for_log_entry() {
         return 1
     fi
 }
+
+########################
+# Creates a secure temporary file containing the provided secret
+# Arguments:
+#   $1 - secret to write to the temporary file
+# Returns:
+#   String
+#########################
+credential_to_temp_file() {
+    local secret="$1"
+    local tmp_file
+
+    # Use mktemp with a specific prefix for easier debugging if something lingers
+    if ! tmp_file=$(mktemp "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/at.cred.XXXXXXXX"); then
+        echo "Error: Failed to create temp file" >&2
+        return 1
+    fi
+
+    # Restrict permissions before writing the secret
+    chmod 0600 "$tmp_file"
+    # Write secret and ensure it's flushed to disk
+    printf "%s" "$secret" > "$tmp_file"
+    # Output the filename so the caller can capture it
+    echo "$tmp_file"
+}
+
+########################
+# Cleans up temporary files created by credential_to_temp_file
+# Arguments:
+#   None
+# Returns:
+#   None
+#########################
+cleanup_credentials() {
+    debug "Cleaning up temporary files containing credentials"
+    rm -rf "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}"/at.cred.*
+}
diff --git a/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libfs.sh b/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libfs.sh
index 1337f6c2dd59..b16efabd3230 100644
--- a/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libfs.sh
+++ b/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libfs.sh
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ relativize() {
 #   -d|--dir-mode - mode for files.
 #   -u|--user - user
 #   -g|--group - group
+#   -n|--no-dereference - do not follow symlinks (use for runtime root chown of daemon-writable dirs)
 # Returns:
 #   None
 #########################
@@ -140,6 +141,7 @@ configure_permissions_ownership() {
     local file_mode=""
     local user=""
     local group=""
+    local follow_symlinks="yes"
 
     # Validate arguments
     shift 1
@@ -161,6 +163,9 @@ configure_permissions_ownership() {
             shift
             group="${1:?missing group}"
             ;;
+        -n | --no-dereference)
+            follow_symlinks="no"
+            ;;
         *)
             echo "Invalid command line flag $1" >&2
             return 1
@@ -169,22 +174,29 @@ configure_permissions_ownership() {
         shift
     done
 
+    # -L: follow symlinks and emits the target path
+    # This is dangerous at runtime, given a co-located lower-privileged process with write access
+    # to the target path can redirect the chown/chmod to arbitrary paths. Example:
+    # Lower-privileged process run: ln -s /etc /tmp/etc
+    # Then, setup.sh runs: configure_permissions_ownership --dir-mode 775 /tmp
+    local find_L_flag=(); [[ "$follow_symlinks" == "yes" ]] && find_L_flag=("-L")
+    # -h: changes symlink inode ownership without touching the target.
+    local chown_flags=(); [[ "$follow_symlinks" == "no" ]] && chown_flags=("-h")
     read -r -a filepaths <<<"$paths"
     for p in "${filepaths[@]}"; do
         if [[ -e "$p" ]]; then
-            find -L "$p" -printf ""
             if [[ -n $dir_mode ]]; then
-                find -L "$p" -type d ! -perm "$dir_mode" -print0 | xargs -r -0 chmod "$dir_mode"
+                find "${find_L_flag[@]}" "$p" -not -type l -type d ! -perm "$dir_mode" -print0 | xargs -r -0 chmod "$dir_mode"
             fi
             if [[ -n $file_mode ]]; then
-                find -L "$p" -type f ! -perm "$file_mode" -print0 | xargs -r -0 chmod "$file_mode"
+                find "${find_L_flag[@]}" "$p" -not -type l -type f ! -perm "$file_mode" -print0 | xargs -r -0 chmod "$file_mode"
             fi
             if [[ -n $user ]] && [[ -n $group ]]; then
-                find -L "$p" -print0 | xargs -r -0 chown "${user}:${group}"
+                find "${find_L_flag[@]}" "$p" -print0 | xargs -r -0 chown "${chown_flags[@]}" "${user}:${group}"
             elif [[ -n $user ]] && [[ -z $group ]]; then
-                find -L "$p" -print0 | xargs -r -0 chown "${user}"
+                find "${find_L_flag[@]}" "$p" -print0 | xargs -r -0 chown "${chown_flags[@]}" "${user}"
             elif [[ -z $user ]] && [[ -n $group ]]; then
-                find -L "$p" -print0 | xargs -r -0 chgrp "${group}"
+                find "${find_L_flag[@]}" "$p" -print0 | xargs -r -0 chgrp "${chown_flags[@]}" "${group}"
             fi
         else
             stderr_print "$p does not exist"
diff --git a/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/ejbca/setup.sh b/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/ejbca/setup.sh
index 69a5243d3267..68160b32fa9a 100755
--- a/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/ejbca/setup.sh
+++ b/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/ejbca/setup.sh
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ set -o pipefail
 # Ensure ejbca environment variables are valid
 ejbca_validate
 
+# Ensure we clean up temporary files when this script ends
+trap cleanup_credentials EXIT
+
 # Ensure ejbca is initialized
 ejbca_initialize
 
diff --git a/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libejbca.sh b/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libejbca.sh
index 8a63d4e1aae0..e806d4ce05bd 100644
--- a/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libejbca.sh
+++ b/bitnami/ejbca/9/debian-12/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libejbca.sh
@@ -7,13 +7,13 @@
 # shellcheck disable=SC1091
 
 # Load Generic Libraries
+. /opt/bitnami/scripts/libfile.sh
 . /opt/bitnami/scripts/libfs.sh
 . /opt/bitnami/scripts/liblog.sh
 . /opt/bitnami/scripts/libos.sh
 . /opt/bitnami/scripts/libvalidations.sh
 . /opt/bitnami/scripts/libpersistence.sh
 . /opt/bitnami/scripts/libservice.sh
-. /opt/bitnami/scripts/libfile.sh
 
 ########################
 # Validate settings in EJBCA_* env. variables
@@ -402,15 +402,10 @@ ejbca_generate_ca() {
             -s "$EJBCA_CA_CERT_SIGNATURE_ALGORITHM" \
             -type "x509"
 
-        # Avoid passing EJBCA admin password as arguments to ejbca.sh, to avoid leaking them given
+        # Avoid passing EJBCA admin password as arguments to ejbca.sh, to avoid leaking them
         # given a local observer with /proc read access can read them
-        # Instead, we can read them from temporary files
         local ejbca_admin_password_file
-        ejbca_admin_password_file="$(mktemp)"
-        chmod 0600 "$ejbca_admin_password_file"
-        echo "$EJBCA_ADMIN_PASSWORD" > "$ejbca_admin_password_file"
-        # shellcheck disable=SC2064
-        trap "rm -f $ejbca_admin_password_file" RETURN ERR INT TERM
+        ejbca_admin_password_file="$(credential_to_temp_file "$EJBCA_ADMIN_PASSWORD")"
 
         info "Add superadmin user"
         ejbca_execute_command ra addendentity \
@@ -620,8 +615,8 @@ ejbca_initialize() {
     info "Initializing EJBCA..."
 
     # Configuring permissions for tmp, logs and data folders
-    am_i_root && configure_permissions_ownership "$EJBCA_TMP_DIR" -u "$EJBCA_DAEMON_USER" -g "$EJBCA_DAEMON_GROUP"
-    am_i_root && configure_permissions_ownership "$EJBCA_DATA_DIR" -u "$EJBCA_DAEMON_USER" -g "$EJBCA_DAEMON_GROUP"
+    am_i_root && configure_permissions_ownership "$EJBCA_TMP_DIR" -u "$EJBCA_DAEMON_USER" -g "$EJBCA_DAEMON_GROUP" -n
+    am_i_root && configure_permissions_ownership "$EJBCA_DATA_DIR" -u "$EJBCA_DAEMON_USER" -g "$EJBCA_DAEMON_GROUP" -n
 
     # Note we need to use wildfly instead of ejbca as directory since the persist_app function relativizes them to /opt/bitnami/wildfly
     if ! is_app_initialized "wildfly"; then