CVE-2026-24909

medium

Description

vlt before 1.0.0-rc.10 mishandles path sanitization for tar, leading to path traversal during extraction.

References

https://www.scworld.com/news/six-javascript-zero-day-bugs-lead-to-fears-of-supply-chain-attack

https://www.koi.ai/blog/packagegate-6-zero-days-in-js-package-managers-but-npm-wont-act

https://github.com/vltpkg/vltpkg/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc.10

https://github.com/vltpkg/vltpkg/pull/1334

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-01-27

Updated: 2026-01-29

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.9

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00006