CVE-2026-50163

oras-go is a Go library for managing OCI artifacts. Prior to 2.6.2, ensureLinkPath in content/file/utils.go:262-275 validates a hardlink target relative to the extract base but returns the unresolved target, causing os.Link"victim.secret", "/payload.tar.gz/evilcwdlink" to resolve header.Linkname...

`oras-go` tar extraction: Hardlink entry with relative Linkname escapes extract dir via process CWD resolution

Root cause The tar-extraction helper ensureLinkPath at content/file/utils.go:262-275 validates that a hardlink's target resolves inside the extract base, but then returns the original unresolved target string back to the caller: go func ensureLinkPathbaseAbs, baseRel, link, target string string,...