CVE-2026-79699Podman: buildah: skopeo: containers/storage: malicious tar whiteout header allows replacement of extraction destination directory
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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.
- CVSS
- 4.4 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-59
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- redhat
- NVD analysis
- Awaiting Analysis
- Record last updated
- Oct 2, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 redhat:ansible_automation_platform | 2 | CNA record |
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 redhat:enterprise_linux | 10 | CNA record |
Red Hat Red Hat Hardened Images redhat:hummingbird | 1 | CNA record |
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 redhat:openshift | 4 | CNA record |
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces redhat:openshift_devspaces | 3 | CNA record |
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4 redhat:container_native_virtualization | 4 | CNA record |
Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3 redhat:quay | 3 | CNA record |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-79699vdb-entry, x-refsource-redhat
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2523408issue-tracking, x-refsource-redhat
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