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SCA: security update for proot-distro (GHSA-7h3g-4w2f-fj2f)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 445460

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - proot-distro is a utility for managing proot containers. Prior to version 5.1.6, proot-distro restore
 accepted hardlink entries whose linkname referenced another installed container and did not verify that
 the hardlink source container matched the destination container being restored, allowing a crafted restore
 archive to copy files between otherwise isolated containers. This issue is fixed in version 5.1.6.
 (CVE-2026-54727)

Solution

Update the proot-distro library and its related packages to version 5.1.6 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7h3g-4w2f-fj2f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 445460

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 7/29/2026

Updated: 7/29/2026

Risk Information

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-54727

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/29/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/29/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-54727

cwe: CWE-668