CVE-2026-54574

proot-distro is a utility for managing proot containers. Prior to version 5.1.5, proot-distro install extracted plain tarball root filesystems through extractplaintar in prootdistro/commands/install.py and Docker layers through applylayer in prootdistro/helpers/docker.py without validating...

CVE-2026-54574

proot-distro is a utility for managing proot containers. Prior to version 5.1.5, proot-distro install extracted plain tarball root filesystems through extractplaintar in prootdistro/commands/install.py and Docker layers through applylayer in prootdistro/helpers/docker.py without validating...

PT-2026-65847

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions proot-distro versions prior to 5.1.5 Description proot-distro fails to validate archive-controlled symlink targets when extracting root filesystems. While the software rejects tar member names containing .. components to prevent directory...

Zarf's symlink targets in archives are not validated against destination directory

Summary A path traversal vulnerability in archive extraction allows a specifically crafted Zarf package to create symlinks pointing outside the destination directory, enabling arbitrary file read or write on the system processing the package. What users should do Upgrade immediately to version...

star directory traversal vulnerability

Directory traversal vulnerability in extract.c in star before 1.5a84 allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via certain //.. slash slash dot dot sequences in directory symlinks in a TAR archive...