CVE-2026-79699

medium

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.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2523408

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-79699

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-15

Updated: 2026-09-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.6

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.4

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0013