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CVE-2026-89091

8.8, high

Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications 8 Link Following Vulnerability

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CVSS
8.8, high high CVSS v3.1
EPSS, next 30 days
0.5% higher than 39.9% of scored CVEs
Exploitation
No public evidence
Published
8 Oct 20269 days ago

Description

A flaw was found in ansible-core. When installing a collection with `ansible-galaxy collection install`, the archive extractor validates member paths using lexical path normalisation (os.path.abspath) instead of resolving symbolic links (os.path.realpath), and it performs no containment check on symlink-typed directory members before creating them. A crafted collection tarball can chain symlink directory entries so that a subsequent file member is written outside the intended destination directory. This allows an attacker who can get a victim to install a malicious collection to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running ansible-galaxy, leading to code execution on the control node. This is a bypass of the fix for CVE-2020-10691.

Details

Vendor
Red Hat
Product
Migration Toolkit for Applications 8
Weakness
CWE-59 (opens in a new tab)
Status
Received
Updated
8 Oct 2026
Assigner
secalert@redhat.com

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References 2

Advisories 1

Other references 1

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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.