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CVE-2026-79699

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.4 Published: 2026-09-15 Modified: 2026-09-17

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-59

References