CVE-2026-7374 Kubevirt: kubevirt virt-handler: privilege escalation and node compromise via symlink following vulnerability

A flaw was found in KubeVirt's virt-handler component. This vulnerability allows an authenticated OpenShift user with edit permissions in a single namespace to exploit improper symlink validation when connecting to virtual machine console sockets. By replacing the console socket with a symlink to...

CVE-2026-7374 Kubevirt: kubevirt virt-handler: privilege escalation and node compromise via symlink following vulnerability

A flaw was found in KubeVirt's virt-handler component. This vulnerability allows an authenticated OpenShift user with edit permissions in a single namespace to exploit improper symlink validation when connecting to virtual machine console sockets. By replacing the console socket with a symlink to...

CVE-2026-7374

CVE-2026-7374 describes a vulnerability in KubeVirt’s virt-handler where improper symlink validation during VM console socket connections allows an authenticated OpenShift user with namespace-level edit permissions to hijack virt-handler’s privileged connection. By substituting the console socket...

Symlink Attack

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack via improper validation of symbolic links in the virt-handler process. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to privileged Unix sockets on the host by replacing a virtual machine console socket with a symlink to a...

Symlink Attack

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack via improper validation of symbolic links in the virt-handler process. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to privileged Unix sockets on the host by replacing a virtual machine console socket with a symlink to a...

golang: internal/syscall/unix: Root.Chmod can follow symlinks out of the root

A flaw was found in the internal/syscall/unix package in the Go standard library. If the target of the Root.Chmod function is replaced with a symbolic link during execution, specifically after Root.Chmod checks the target but before acting, the chmod operation will be performed on the file the...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-42496

Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract symlinks with attacker controlled targets outside the extraction directory. makespecialfile passes the tar header's linkname to symlink without validating it against absolute paths or .. segments. The secure-extract mode check that guards regular...

CVE-2026-42496

Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract symlinks with attacker controlled targets outside the extraction directory. makespecialfile passes the tar header's linkname to symlink without validating it against absolute paths or .. segments. The secure-extract mode check that guards regular...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-42496

Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract symlinks with attacker controlled targets outside the extraction directory. makespecialfile passes the tar header's linkname to symlink without validating it against absolute paths or .. segments. The secure-extract mode check that guards regular...

CVE-2026-42496 Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract symlinks with attacker controlled targets outside the extraction directory

Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract symlinks with attacker controlled targets outside the extraction directory. makespecialfile passes the tar header's linkname to symlink without validating it against absolute paths or .. segments. The secure-extract mode check that guards regular...

CVE-2026-42496

Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract symlinks with attacker controlled targets outside the extraction directory. makespecialfile passes the tar header's linkname to symlink without validating it against absolute paths or .. segments. The secure-extract mode check that guards regular...

EUVD-2026-31774

Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract symlinks with attacker controlled targets outside the extraction directory. makespecialfile passes the tar header's linkname to symlink without validating it against absolute paths or .. segments. The secure-extract mode check that guards regular...

CVE-2026-42496 Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract symlinks with attacker controlled targets outside the extraction directory

Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract symlinks with attacker controlled targets outside the extraction directory. makespecialfile passes the tar header's linkname to symlink without validating it against absolute paths or .. segments. The secure-extract mode check that guards regular...

CVE-2026-42496

Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract symlinks with attacker controlled targets outside the extraction directory. makespecialfile passes the tar header's linkname to symlink without validating it against absolute paths or .. segments. The secure-extract mode check that guards regular...

CVE-2026-42496 Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract symlinks with attacker controlled targets outside the extraction directory

Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract symlinks with attacker controlled targets outside the extraction directory. makespecialfile passes the tar header's linkname to symlink without validating it against absolute paths or .. segments. The secure-extract mode check that guards regular...

CVE-2026-42496

CVE-2026-42496 affects the Archive::Tar Perl module, versions prior to 3.08. The vulnerability arises when extracting tar archives: _make_special_file() passes the tar header’s linkname to symlink() without validating against absolute paths or .. segments. The secure-extract mode protecting regul...

CVE-2026-48693

FastNetMon Community Edition through 1.2.9 is vulnerable to a local symlink attack via predictable file paths in /tmp. The statistics file path defaults to '/tmp/fastnetmon.dat' src/fastnetmon.cpp line 159. The printscreencontentsintofile function src/fastnetmonlogic.cpp line 2186 opens this path...

CVE-2026-48693

FastNetMon Community Edition through 1.2.9 is vulnerable to a local symlink attack via predictable file paths in /tmp. The statistics file path defaults to '/tmp/fastnetmon.dat' src/fastnetmon.cpp line 159. The printscreencontentsintofile function src/fastnetmonlogic.cpp line 2186 opens this path...

CVE-2026-48693

FastNetMon Community Edition through 1.2.9 is vulnerable to a local symlink attack via predictable file paths in /tmp. The statistics file path defaults to '/tmp/fastnetmon.dat' src/fastnetmon.cpp line 159. The printscreencontentsintofile function src/fastnetmonlogic.cpp line 2186 opens this path...

PT-2026-43242

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions KubeVirt affected versions not specified Description A flaw in the virt-handler component allows an authenticated OpenShift user with edit permissions in a single namespace to exploit improper symlink validation when connecting to virtual...