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CVE-2026-79699mediumCWE-59

Podman: buildah: skopeo: containers/storage: malicious tar whiteout header allows replacement of extraction destination directory

13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 4.4epss 0.1%
exploitation probability
0.1%top 97% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L