MEDIUM 4.4 NVD

CVE-2026-79699

A flaw was found in the containers/storage library. A crafted tar archive containing a malicious whiteout header (e.g. victim/.wh.) can cause the extraction des

A flaw was found in the containers/storage library. A crafted tar archive containing a malicious whiteout header (e.g. victim/.wh.) can cause the extraction destination directory to be replaced with an arbitrary file when processed by storage/pkg/archive.UnpackLayer, ApplyLayer, or ApplyUncompressedLayer.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-79699
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2523408

Published: 2026-09-15 · Source: NVD · Feed updated: 2026-09-15

This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 4.4 was published on 2026-09-15 via NVD.

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