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CVE-2026-90954

7.8, high

Red Hat Hardened Images Link Following Vulnerability

NVD (opens in a new tab) CVE.org (opens in a new tab)
CVSS
7.8, high high CVSS v3.1
EPSS, next 30 days
0.2% higher than 8.8% of scored CVEs
Exploitation
No public evidence
Published
14 Oct 20263 days ago

Description

A flaw was found in BusyBox's dpkg-deb archive extraction. The ar archive handler flushes deferred symlinks after each archive member, unlike the tar, cpio, and unzip handlers which flush once after the last member. A specially crafted .deb archive with two data.tar members can exploit this ordering: the first member declares a symlink pointing to an absolute path (e.g., '/'), which is deferred as unsafe but flushed after the first member. The second member declares a regular file whose path traverses the now-live symlink, resulting in a file being written outside the intended extraction directory. This could allow an attacker to write arbitrary files to arbitrary locations when a user extracts a crafted .deb package.

Details

Vendor
Red Hat
Product
Red Hat Hardened Images
Weakness
CWE-59 (opens in a new tab)
Status
Awaiting analysis
Updated
15 Oct 2026
Assigner
secalert@redhat.com

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/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.