High 8.2Published Jul 29, 2026

CVE-2026-54574proot-distro is a utility for managing proot containers.

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 07:50 UTC)

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proot-distro is a utility for managing proot containers. Prior to version 5.1.5, proot-distro install extracted plain tarball root filesystems through _extract_plain_tar() in proot_distro/commands/install.py and Docker layers through _apply_layer() in proot_distro/helpers/docker.py without validating archive-controlled symlink targets in member.linkname, allowing a malicious archive to plant an absolute host-path symlink and write files through it onto the host filesystem. This issue is fixed in version 5.1.5.

CVSS: 8.2 HIGH (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-61
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Deferred
Record last updated: Jul 30, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

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References

https://github.com/termux/proot-distro/commit/a96d7a9667f38e45d812614852ee3915d1c0ae45
https://github.com/termux/proot-distro/releases/tag/v5.1.5
https://github.com/termux/proot-distro/security/advisories/GHSA-9xq3-3fqg-4vg7

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