ALPINE-CVE-2026-62268: Medium severity alpine/borgbackup vulnerability

Published Nov 5, 2026
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Updated

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.

Affected Software

1 affected componentFixes available
alpine/borgbackup<1.4.5-r0
1.4.5-r0

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade alpine/borgbackup to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.4.5-r0
  2. Upgrade

    Upgrade borgbackup to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.4.5
  3. Upgrade

    Upgrade borgbackup to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 2.0.0b22

Event History

Nov 5, 2026
CVE Published
via OSV·09:18 PM
Data Sourced
via OSV·09:18 PM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

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