CVE-2026-15028

low

Description

A flaw was found in libarchive. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive. The issue occurs during the parsing of a PAX extended header containing a malformed SUN.holesdata sparse-file attribute. Successful exploitation could lead to a denial of service, making the system unavailable, or potentially allow for arbitrary code execution, giving the attacker control over the affected system.

References

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/3253

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/3251

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2497970

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-15028

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-07-10

Updated: 2026-07-10

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

Severity: Low

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00286