Medium 5.9Published Aug 25, 2026

CVE-2026-32637Velero vulnerable to file path traversal when extracting from backup's tarball

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 06:25 UTC)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

Velero is an open source tool for backing up, restoring, and migrating Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes. Prior to 1.18.1, an attacker who compromises the backup object-storage backend can upload a malicious backup tarball containing parent-directory paths that escape the extraction directory during restore and overwrite sensitive files in the Velero pod filesystem. This issue is fixed in version 1.18.1.

CVSS: 5.9 MEDIUM (v4.0, CNA)CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-22
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Deferred
Record last updated: Aug 28, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

velero-io velero velero_io:velero (from the name)	before 1.18.1	CNA record

References

https://github.com/velero-io/velero/security/advisories/GHSA-j2g6-362q-6qc6x-refsource-confirm
https://github.com/securego/gosec/issues/324x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/velero-io/velero/commit/3f8e3588496391979915ace065f732a9013c1cf0x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/velero-io/velero/commit/c7fa4bfe3571667e9731f3f504da3c6be709a24cx-refsource-misc

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