CVE-2026-28406

high

Description

kaniko is a tool to build container images from a Dockerfile, inside a container or Kubernetes cluster. Starting in version 1.25.4 and prior to version 1.25.10, kaniko unpacks build context archives using `filepath.Join(dest, cleanedName)` without enforcing that the final path stays within `dest`. A tar entry like `../outside.txt` escapes the extraction root and writes files outside the destination directory. In environments with registry authentication, this can be chained with docker credential helpers to achieve code execution within the executor process. Version 1.25.10 uses securejoin for path resolution in tar extraction.

References

https://github.com/chainguard-forks/kaniko/security/advisories/GHSA-6rxq-q92g-4rmf

https://github.com/chainguard-forks/kaniko/pull/326

https://github.com/chainguard-forks/kaniko/commit/a370e4b1f66e6e842b685c8f70ed507964c4b221

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-02-27

Updated: 2026-03-06

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 8.5

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.2

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0012