CVE-2026-44788

SharpCompress is a fully managed C library to deal with many compression types and formats. In 0.47.4 and earlier, a path traversal vulnerability in IArchive.WriteToDirectory allows a malicious archive to create directories outside the intended extraction root. For TAR archives, this can be...

OCI layer symlink escape → arbitrary host write

Affected versions of boxlite extract OCI image layer tarballs without fully containing path resolution to the extraction root. A crafted layer containing a symlink whose target is an absolute on-host path e.g. escape - /tmp followed by a file entry that resolves through that symlink e.g...

PT-2026-42210

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Boxlite versions prior to 0.9.0 Description Boxlite is a sandbox service that allows users to create lightweight virtual machines and run OCI containers. The software fails to properly validate symlink targets when extracting OCI image layer...

Symlink Attack

Overview @boxlite-ai/boxlite is a BoxLite - Embeddable micro-VM runtime for secure, isolated code execution Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack via improper path resolution during extraction of OCI image layer tarballs. An attacker can write arbitrary files to...

Astra Linux - уязвимость в node-tar

node-tar is a fully featured Tar library for Node.js. When using default options in versions 7.5.7 and below, an attacker-controlled archive can create a hardlink within the extraction directory that points to a file outside of the extraction root. This allows arbitrary file reading and writing b...

Complete Bypass of CVE-2026-24884 Patch via Git-Delivered Symlink Poisoning in compressing

Executive Summary This report documents a critical security research finding in the compressing npm package specifically tested on the latest v2.1.0. The core vulnerability is a Partial Fix Bypass of CVE-2026-24884. The current patch relies on a purely logical string validation within the...

USN-8138-2 rust-tar vulnerability

USN-8138-1 fixed a vulnerability in tar-rs. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Original advisory details: It was discovered that tar-rs incorrectly handled symlinks when unpacking a tar archive. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a speciall...

USN-8168-2: Rust vulnerability

USN-8168-1 fixed a vulnerability in Rust. This update provides the corresponding update to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Original advisory details: It was discovered that tar-rs embedded in rustc incorrectly handled symlinks when unpacking a tar archiv...

USN-8168-2 rustc, rustc-1.76, rustc-1.77, rustc-1.78, rustc-1.79, rustc-1.80 vulnerability

USN-8168-1 fixed a vulnerability in Rust. This update provides the corresponding update to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Original advisory details: It was discovered that tar-rs embedded in rustc incorrectly handled symlinks when unpacking a tar archiv...

USN-8168-1: Rust vulnerability

It was discovered that tar-rs embedded in rustc incorrectly handled symlinks when unpacking a tar archive. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted tar archive, a remote attacker could use this issue to modify permissions of arbitrary directories outside the...

USN-8168-1 rustc vulnerability

It was discovered that tar-rs embedded in rustc incorrectly handled symlinks when unpacking a tar archive. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted tar archive, a remote attacker could use this issue to modify permissions of arbitrary directories outside the...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 : tar-rs vulnerability (USN-8138-1)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-8138-1 advisory. It was discovered that tar-rs incorrectly handled symlinks when unpacking a tar archive. If a user or automated system were tricked into...

USN-8139-1: cargo-c vulnerability

It was discovered that tar-rs embedded in cargo-c incorrectly handled symlinks when unpacking a tar archive. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted tar archive, a remote attacker could use this issue to modify permissions of arbitrary directories outside th...

USN-8138-1 rust-tar vulnerability

It was discovered that tar-rs incorrectly handled symlinks when unpacking a tar archive. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted tar archive, a remote attacker could use this issue to modify permissions of arbitrary directories outside the extraction root, a...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-33056

tar-rs is a tar archive reading/writing library for Rust. In versions 0.4.44 and below, when unpacking a tar archive, the tar crate's unpackdir function uses fs::metadata to check whether a path that already exists is a directory. Because fs::metadata follows symbolic links, a crafted tarball...

ALPINE-CVE-2026-33056

tar-rs is a tar archive reading/writing library for Rust. In versions 0.4.44 and below, when unpacking a tar archive, the tar crate's unpackdir function uses fs::metadata to check whether a path that already exists is a directory. Because fs::metadata follows symbolic links, a crafted tarball...

CVE-2026-33056

tar-rs is a tar archive reading/writing library for Rust. In versions 0.4.44 and below, when unpacking a tar archive, the tar crate's unpackdir function uses fs::metadata to check whether a path that already exists is a directory. Because fs::metadata follows symbolic links, a crafted tarball...

CVE-2026-33056 tar-rs: unpack_in can chmod arbitrary directories by following symlinks

tar-rs is a tar archive reading/writing library for Rust. In versions 0.4.44 and below, when unpacking a tar archive, the tar crate's unpackdir function uses fs::metadata to check whether a path that already exists is a directory. Because fs::metadata follows symbolic links, a crafted tarball...

CVE-2026-33056 tar-rs: unpack_in can chmod arbitrary directories by following symlinks

tar-rs is a tar archive reading/writing library for Rust. In versions 0.4.44 and below, when unpacking a tar archive, the tar crate's unpackdir function uses fs::metadata to check whether a path that already exists is a directory. Because fs::metadata follows symbolic links, a crafted tarball...

CVE-2026-33056

tar-rs is a tar archive reading/writing library for Rust. In versions 0.4.44 and below, when unpacking a tar archive, the tar crate's unpackdir function uses fs::metadata to check whether a path that already exists is a directory. Because fs::metadata follows symbolic links, a crafted tarball...