Symlink Attack

Overview decompress is a package that can be used for extracting archives. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack via the fs.link process. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to sensitive files or corrupt file contents by crafting an archive containing a hardlink...

Symlink Attack

Overview org.webjars.npm:decompress is a package that can be used for extracting archives. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack via the fs.link process. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to sensitive files or corrupt file contents by crafting an archive...

Symlink Attack

Overview decompress is a package that can be used for extracting archives. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack in the symlink handling process. An attacker can create arbitrary symbolic links outside the intended extraction directory by crafting an archive with...

Symlink Attack

Overview org.webjars.npm:decompress is a package that can be used for extracting archives. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack in the symlink handling process. An attacker can create arbitrary symbolic links outside the intended extraction directory by crafting an...

CVE-2026-58198

ChatterBot is a machine learning, conversational dialog engine for creating chat bots. Prior to 1.2.14, UbuntuCorpusTrainer.extract uses a predictable home-rooted output directory /ubuntudata/ubuntudialogs with a check-then-create pattern followed by tar.extractallpath=self.datapath, allowing a...

CVE-2026-58198 ChatterBot: Symlink-Following Arbitrary Write via UbuntuCorpusTrainer

ChatterBot is a machine learning, conversational dialog engine for creating chat bots. Prior to 1.2.14, UbuntuCorpusTrainer.extract uses a predictable home-rooted output directory /ubuntudata/ubuntudialogs with a check-then-create pattern followed by tar.extractallpath=self.datapath, allowing a...

CVE-2026-58198

ChatterBot (Python) vulnerability CVE-2026-58198: UbuntuCorpusTrainer.extract() uses a predictable home path (~/.ubuntu_data/ubuntu_dialogs) with a check-then-create pattern, then tar.extractall(path=self.data_path). An attacker who pre-places a symlink at that path can cause archived contents to...

EUVD-2026-42685

ChatterBot is a machine learning, conversational dialog engine for creating chat bots. Prior to 1.2.14, UbuntuCorpusTrainer.extract uses a predictable home-rooted output directory /ubuntudata/ubuntudialogs with a check-then-create pattern followed by tar.extractallpath=self.datapath, allowing a...

CVE-2026-58203

A flaw was found in the pydantic-settings component. When configured to handle nested secrets, this vulnerability allows an attacker to read sensitive files from outside the designated secrets directory. By placing a specially crafted symbolic link within the secrets directory, an attacker can...

Symlink Attack

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack via the Docker task driver when a job submitter is able to bind-mount a host path into a container despite volume bind mounts being disabled. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to read and write files on the host...

Symlink Attack

Overview github.com/hashicorp/nomad/helper/escapingfs is a simple and flexible workload orchestrator to deploy and manage containers docker, podman, non-containerized applications executable, Java, and virtual machines qemu across on-prem and clouds at scale. Nomad is supported on Linux, Windows,...

Security Bulletin: Consul-template is vulnerable to path redirection in writeToFile through symlink attack

Summary The consul-template library before version 0.42.1 is vulnerable to a path redirection issue in the writeToFile template helper that may allow template output to be written outside the intended directory or to overwrite an existing file. This vulnerability CVE-2026-14361 is fixed in...

CVE-2026-14361 Consul-template is vulnerable to path redirection in writeToFile through symlink attack

The consul-template library before version 0.42.1 is vulnerable to a path redirection issue in the writeToFile template helper that may allow template output to be written outside the intended directory or to overwrite an existing file. This vulnerability CVE-2026-14361 is fixed in consul-templat...

CVE-2026-14361 Consul-template is vulnerable to path redirection in writeToFile through symlink attack

The consul-template library before version 0.42.1 is vulnerable to a path redirection issue in the writeToFile template helper that may allow template output to be written outside the intended directory or to overwrite an existing file. This vulnerability CVE-2026-14361 is fixed in consul-templat...

Symlink Attack

Overview bbot is an OSINT automation for hackers. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack in the unarchive process when extracting zip or 7z archives containing symlink entries with a DOS-attribute prefix before the unix mode, as produced by legacy versions of p7zip. An...

Symlink Attack

Overview std/os is a Go standard library package std/os Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack. Go Vulnerability Report:On Unix systems, opening a file in an os.Root improperly follows symlinks to locations outside of the Root when the final path component of the a pat...

PYSEC-2026-1374 filelock Time-of-Check-Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Symlink Vulnerability in SoftFileLock

Vulnerability Summary Title: Time-of-Check-Time-of-Use TOCTOU Symlink Vulnerability in SoftFileLock Affected Component: filelock package - SoftFileLock class File: src/filelock/soft.py lines 17-27 CWE: CWE-362, CWE-367, CWE-59 --- Description A TOCTOU race condition vulnerability exists in the...

PYSEC-2026-1375 filelock has a TOCTOU race condition which allows symlink attacks during lock file creation

Impact A Time-of-Check-Time-of-Use TOCTOU race condition allows local attackers to corrupt or truncate arbitrary user files through symlink attacks. The vulnerability exists in both Unix and Windows lock file creation where filelock checks if a file exists before opening it with OTRUNC. An attack...

PYSEC-2026-1120 Ansible symlink attack vulnerability

An absolute path traversal attack exists in the Ansible automation platform. This flaw allows an attacker to craft a malicious Ansible role and make the victim execute the role. A symlink can be used to overwrite a file outside of the extraction path...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS : Gzip vulnerabilities (USN-8512-1)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8512-1 advisory. It was discovered that Gzip's gzexe utility handled temporary files in an insecure manner. When the mktemp utility was not...