CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-54574

8.2 HIGH Published 2026-07-29 Modified 2026-10-24 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2026-07-29
Last modified
2026-10-24
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-61

Description

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.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-61 UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following weakness

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