EUVD-2026-50408

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 install` has a Symlink Escape (Arbitrary Host File Write) via Malicious Tar Archive

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

CVE-2026-54574 affects proot-distro prior to 5.1.5. The flaw resides in extraction paths: _extract_plain_tar() (proot_distro/commands/install.py) and _apply_layer() (proot_distro/helpers/docker.py) do not validate symlink targets (member.linkname). A tar archive can plant an absolute host-path sy...

CVE-2026-50558

Penelope Shell Handler is a post-exploitation shell handler for authorized security testing. Prior to 0.20.0, the Unix download implementation in penelope.py used tar.extractalllocaldownloadfolder on tar archives returned by remote sessions without validating member paths, allowing a malicious or...

Penelope unsafe tar extraction allows arbitrary local file write via crafted session archive

Summary Penelope versions prior to 0.19.3 extracted tar archives received from remote sessions without validating archive member paths. When using the affected Unix download path, a malicious or compromised remote session could return a crafted tar archive containing path traversal entries, such ...

Directory Traversal

Overview penelope-shell-handler is a Post-exploitation shell handler for authorized security testing Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal in the download process when extracting tar archives from a remote session without validating archive member paths. An...

GHSA-F42X-P2MX-HM8R Penelope unsafe tar extraction allows arbitrary local file write via crafted session archive

Summary Penelope versions prior to 0.19.3 extracted tar archives received from remote sessions without validating archive member paths. When using the affected Unix download path, a malicious or compromised remote session could return a crafted tar archive containing path traversal entries, such ...

CVE-2026-50558 Penelope unsafe tar extraction allows arbitrary local file write via crafted session archive

Penelope Shell Handler is a post-exploitation shell handler for authorized security testing. Prior to 0.20.0, the Unix download implementation in penelope.py used tar.extractalllocaldownloadfolder on tar archives returned by remote sessions without validating member paths, allowing a malicious or...

EUVD-2026-50395

Penelope Shell Handler is a post-exploitation shell handler for authorized security testing. Prior to 0.20.0, the Unix download implementation in penelope.py used tar.extractalllocaldownloadfolder on tar archives returned by remote sessions without validating member paths, allowing a malicious or...

CVE-2026-50558 Penelope unsafe tar extraction allows arbitrary local file write via crafted session archive

Penelope Shell Handler is a post-exploitation shell handler for authorized security testing. Prior to 0.20.0, the Unix download implementation in penelope.py used tar.extractalllocaldownloadfolder on tar archives returned by remote sessions without validating member paths, allowing a malicious or...

CVE-2026-50558

Penelope Shell Handler vulnerability CVE-2026-50558 affects the Unix download() implementation in penelope.py. Prior to version 0.20.0, tar.extractall(local_download_folder) on tar archives from remote sessions did not validate member paths, allowing a malicious or compromised session to write fi...

CVE-2026-50558 Penelope unsafe tar extraction allows arbitrary local file write via crafted session archive

Penelope Shell Handler is a post-exploitation shell handler for authorized security testing. Prior to 0.20.0, the Unix download implementation in penelope.py used tar.extractalllocaldownloadfolder on tar archives returned by remote sessions without validating member paths, allowing a malicious or...

Req vulnerable to unbounded archive/compression extraction triggered by response content-type

Summary Req's default response pipeline auto-decodes archive and compressed bodies based on the server-supplied content-type or URL extension and materialises the full decompressed contents in memory with no size cap. An attacker who controls or can redirect a victim into an HTTP endpoint reached...

python: Python Tarfile: Unexpected file ownership when extracting hardlinks

A flaw was found in the Python Tarfile.extract function. This vulnerability occurs when processing untrusted tar files containing hardlinks, as the filter parameter is not correctly enforced. An attacker could exploit this to write files with unintended user or group ownership, potentially leadin...

python: Python Tarfile: Unexpected file ownership when extracting hardlinks

A flaw was found in the Python Tarfile.extract function. This vulnerability occurs when processing untrusted tar files containing hardlinks, as the filter parameter is not correctly enforced. An attacker could exploit this to write files with unintended user or group ownership, potentially leadin...

python: Python Tarfile: Unexpected file ownership when extracting hardlinks

A flaw was found in the Python Tarfile.extract function. This vulnerability occurs when processing untrusted tar files containing hardlinks, as the filter parameter is not correctly enforced. An attacker could exploit this to write files with unintended user or group ownership, potentially leadin...

python: Python Tarfile: Unexpected file ownership when extracting hardlinks

A flaw was found in the Python Tarfile.extract function. This vulnerability occurs when processing untrusted tar files containing hardlinks, as the filter parameter is not correctly enforced. An attacker could exploit this to write files with unintended user or group ownership, potentially leadin...

python: Python Tarfile: Unexpected file ownership when extracting hardlinks

A flaw was found in the Python Tarfile.extract function. This vulnerability occurs when processing untrusted tar files containing hardlinks, as the filter parameter is not correctly enforced. An attacker could exploit this to write files with unintended user or group ownership, potentially leadin...

ROOT-APP-NPM-CVE-2024-28863 CVE-2024-28863 in @rootio/tar - Patched by Root

Root has patched CVE-2024-28863 in the @rootio/tar package for Root:npm. Multiple fixed versions available...

RLSA-2026:47059 Important: nodejs:22 security update

Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language. Security Fixes: brace-expansion: Brace-expansion: Denial of Service due to exponential-time complexity CVE-2026-13149 tar: Node-tar: Denial of Service via malform...