CVE-2026-62268: medium-severity vulnerability in borgbackup borg
borg extract might modify out-of-tree files when extracting maliciously crafted archives
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.3epss 0.2%
borgbackup is an opensource, deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption. Prior to 1.4.5 and 2.0.0b22, extracting a malicious archive can follow a symlinked parent path or resolve embedded dot-dot path components and delete or overwrite files outside the extraction directory. A crafted slave hardlink can also use an attacker-controlled hardlink source outside the extraction directory and hard-link that file into the restored tree, disclosing its contents. Creating the malicious archive requires repository access and, for encrypted or authenticated repositories, the Borg key and passphrase; a victim must then extract the archive. This issue is fixed in versions 1.4.5 and 2.0.0b22.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
borgbackup · borgRelated CVEs — borgbackup borg
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References
https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/commit/0ac568e290518c3bbe781459978720dde7fab224https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/commit/141888f2fabcd57a300547c2aa63212cb213924dhttps://github.com/borgbackup/borg/commit/2d632531028b09da8ab5d1450f89bebcc205d640https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/commit/3e9ed6d1ad6d3531b39c07b8ef3ecf41fce4437fhttps://github.com/borgbackup/borg/commit/4f37fdfed10b50559a0dd333b0d5581c642af329https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/commit/d907f2cb57337041c4fa55ca4682895535e5076bhttps://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases/tag/1.4.5https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases/tag/2.0.0b22https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/security/advisories/GHSA-gfp8-w835-v44j