REDHAT-BUG-2571625: Medium severity vulnerability

Published Nov 11, 2026
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Updated

A flaw was found in BusyBox's cpio. When FEATUREPATHTRAVERSALPROTECTION is enabled, leading '/' and '../' sequences are stripped from the names of entries cpio creates, but hardlinked files are remembered under their archive name and that unsanitized name is passed as the link target. A crafted archive can therefore create a hardlink inside the extraction directory that refers to a file outside it, pulling an arbitrary outside file into the tree; a second archive extracted into the same directory with an overwriting extractor could then replace the outside file's content.

Affected Software

0 affected components

Event History

Nov 11, 2026
Data Sourced
via Red Hat·09:56 AM
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