CVE-2026-72694

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

go-git: Worktree operations may follow symlinks

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CopyEscape: Taking Over Docker Hosts with docker cp

Imperva Red Team uncovered CVE-2026-17106 , a container-to-host arbitrary file-write vulnerability in Docker’s docker cp command. Docker later confirmed that the same CVE also affected sbx cp when copying files out of Docker Sandboxes. A malicious container or sandbox could exploit the copy proce...

PT-2026-70551

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Windows DHCP Server affected versions not specified Description Improper link resolution before file access, also known as link following, allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally on the system. Recommendations At the moment...

PT-2026-70085

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MRTG affected versions not specified Description A flaw exists when the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges. A local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability by...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-73030

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - unearth through 0.18.2, fixed in commit 6c78164, contains a path traversal vulnerability in the iswithindirectory function that fails to normalize paths before...

PT-2026-70553

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Windows DHCP Server affected versions not specified Description Improper link resolution before file access, also known as link following, allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally on the system. Recommendations At the moment...

PT-2026-70550

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Windows DHCP Server affected versions not specified Description Improper link resolution before file access, also known as link following, allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally on the system. Recommendations At the moment...

PT-2026-70518

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Windows DHCP Server affected versions not specified Description Improper link resolution before file access, also known as link following, allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally on the system. Recommendations At the moment...

PT-2026-70528

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Windows DHCP Server affected versions not specified Description Improper link resolution before file access, also known as link following, allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally on the system. Recommendations At the moment...

PT-2026-70084

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions openvt affected versions not specified Description The openvt -u functionality is designed to identify the owner of the current Virtual Terminal VT and execute login as that user from a privileged context. A flaw exists in the authenticate use...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-72694

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a...

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A proof of concept exploit for a local privilege escalation vulnerability in QEMU Guest Agent version 11.0.3. The vulnerability exists in the guest-ssh-add-authorized-keys handler, where improper handling of symbolic links allows an unprivileged guest user to redirect root-privileged file...

CVE-2025-30240

The affected TP-Link Aginet devices do not properly validate symbolic links created on external USB storage devices. By placing a crafted symbolic link on supported storage media, an attacker may cause the system to resolve the link. Successful exploitation may allow unauthorized read access to...

CVE-2025-30240

CVE-2025-30240 affects TP-Link Aginet devices. The issue arises from improper validation of symbolic links on external USB storage, allowing an attacker to cause the system to resolve a crafted symlink and potentially read sensitive files from the device filesystem. Exploitation details and exact...

CVE-2025-30240 Arbitrary File Read via Improper Symlink Handling in USB HTTPS Access Path in multiple TP-Link Aginet Devices

The affected TP-Link Aginet devices do not properly validate symbolic links created on external USB storage devices. By placing a crafted symbolic link on supported storage media, an attacker may cause the system to resolve the link. Successful exploitation may allow unauthorized read access to...

Directory Traversal

Overview unearth is an A utility to fetch and download python packages Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal through the iswithindirectory check in untararchive and iswithindirectory in unearth’s tar extraction code. An attacker can write files outside the intend...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-73030

unearth through 0.18.2, fixed in commit 6c78164, contains a path traversal vulnerability in the iswithindirectory function that fails to normalize paths before validation, allowing ../ sequences to bypass directory containment checks. Attackers can supply malicious tar archives with symlink membe...

CVE-2026-73030

unearth through 0.18.2, fixed in commit 6c78164, contains a path traversal vulnerability in the iswithindirectory function that fails to normalize paths before validation, allowing ../ sequences to bypass directory containment checks. Attackers can supply malicious tar archives with symlink membe...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-63622

A flaw was found in libvirt. A local attacker, specifically a process running as the confined swtpm user, could exploit a symlink-following vulnerability in the virFileChownFiles function. By planting a symbolic link within the swtpm state directory, the attacker could trick the root-level libvir...