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...

EUVD-2026-57615

A symlink following vulnerability was found in KubeVirt's virt-handler migration proxy. During live migration, virt-handler dials Unix sockets inside the target virt-launcher pod via /proc//root/ paths using net.Dial without symlink protection. These socket paths reside in qemu-owned directories...

CVE-2026-63294 Root RCE via image backup.yaml symlink

A link following vulnerability in LXD allows an attacker to achieve root command execution on the host system. During the import or unpacking of crafted image or backup archives, LXD fails to properly validate and confine the backup.yaml file when it exists as a symbolic link. An attacker can...

CVE-2026-70348

Improper link resolution before file access 'link following' in Windows Management Services allows an authorized attacker to deny service locally...

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...

CVE-2026-71556 go-git: Worktree operations may follow symlinks

go-git is an extensible git implementation library written in pure Go. Prior to 5.19.2 and 6.0.0-alpha.5, worktree operations including checkout, status, and add resolve symbolic links inside the working tree without confining resolution to the worktree boundary, so a maliciously crafted reposito...

CVE-2026-71556 go-git: Worktree operations may follow symlinks

go-git is an extensible git implementation library written in pure Go. Prior to 5.19.2 and 6.0.0-alpha.5, worktree operations including checkout, status, and add resolve symbolic links inside the working tree without confining resolution to the worktree boundary, so a maliciously crafted reposito...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-71556

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - go-git is an extensible git implementation library written in pure Go. Prior to 5.19.2 and 6.0.0-alpha.5, worktree operations including checkout, status, and ad...

EUVD-2026-44532

rclone: Unvalidated symlink target in local --links — arbitrary file write from an untrusted remote...

GHSA-CF44-9PGV-M4XC rclone: Unvalidated symlink target in local `--links` — arbitrary file write from an untrusted remote

Summary With -l/--links, rclone serializes symlinks as .rclonelink text objects whose body is the link target. When rclone writes such an object to a local destination, it recreates the symlink with os.Symlink, and performs NO validation of the target. If the source is attacker-controlled, the...

CVE-2026-16791

CVE-2026-16791 affects Lenovo XClarity Essentials OneCLI for Linux, specifically version 5.5.0 and earlier. The issue is a temporary file creation vulnerability that could allow a local, low-privileged attacker to overwrite or truncate arbitrary local files with program-generated data when OneCLI...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-47763

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - pdm is a Python package and dependency manager supporting the latest PEP standards. In versions prior to 2.27.0, pdm writes several project-local state or...

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...

SUSE CVE-2026-52811

Gogs is an open source self-hosted Git service. Prior to 0.14.3, Repository.UploadRepoFiles checks for symlinks only on the leaf of the upload target osx.IsSymlinktargetPath. The siblings UpdateRepoFile, DeleteRepoFile, and GetDiffPreview use hasSymlinkInPath, which lstats every component -...

CVE-2026-67433 Linuxfabrik monitoring-plugins: Symlink following in logfile legacy database migration

Linuxfabrik monitoring-plugins provides Python monitoring plugins for Icinga, Nagios, and related monitoring systems. In version 6.0.0, the logfile check legacy database migration moved a predictable path from /tmp with os.rename and allowed a local user controlling the plugin account to place a...

RockyLinux 9 : postgresql (RLSA-2026:27741)

The remote RockyLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2026:27741 advisory. postgresql: PostgreSQL: Operating system account hijack via symlink following in pgbasebackup and pgrewind CVE-2026-6475 postgresql: PostgreSQL libpq:...

CVE-2026-50135

A flaw was found in Hugo, a static site generator. A regression in the resources.Get function caused it to follow symbolic links symlinks, which are special files that point to other files or directories. This vulnerability allows an attacker who can place a symlink within a local mount point, su...

Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge is vulnerable to a security bypass in python-dotenv [CVE-2026-28684]

Summary IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge is vulnerable to a security bypass in python-dotenv, due to a flaw allowing a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files via a crafted symlink when a cross-device rename fallback is triggered. CVE-2026-28684. Python-dotenv is used in our speech...

K000162461: PostgreSQL vulnerability CVE-2026-6475

Security Advisory Description Symlink following in PostgreSQL pgbasebackup plain format and in pgrewind allows an origin superuser to overwrite local files, e.g. /var/lib/postgres/.bashrc, that hijack the operating system account. It will remain the case that starting the server after these...

CVE-2026-65010

Datasets through 5.00, fixed in commit ad2d853, contains a symlink-following vulnerability in Extractor.extract that allows local attackers to write arbitrary files by pre-planting symlinks at predictable output paths. Attackers can redirect archive extraction to arbitrary filesystem locations in...