“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.
Score 9.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-05-26. NVD baseline CVSS 9.1; sources differ by 0.0.
A fix is available — apply it.
Fixed versions, as the CVE record's CNA (CPAN Security Group) states them: "Upgrade to Archive::Tar 3.08 or later."
Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract symlinks with attacker controlled targets outside the extraction directory.
_make_special_file() passes the tar header's linkname to symlink() without validating it against absolute paths or .. segments. The secure-extract mode check that guards regular file extraction does not cover the symlink target.
A subsequent open through the extracted name reads or writes the attacker chosen path.
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.
In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
May 26, 2026
July 24, 2026
Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-42496.jsonAffected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2481314Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or OpenShift Container Platform 4, is affected by this vulnerability and a fix may be released to a
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-42496Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30857Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30856Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30852Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30851These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Red Hat Security Advisory: perl:5.32 security update
Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract symlinks with attacker controlled targets outside the extraction directory
Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract symlinks with attacker controlled targets...
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | perl-modules-5.30 (5.30.0-9ubuntu0.5+esm2) @ focal | 2026-10-15 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | perl-modules-5.40 (5.40.1-6ubuntu0.1) @ questing | 2026-10-15 | ubuntu |
| redhat | perl-Archive-Tar-0:3.02-512.el10_2.1 | 2026-06-29 | redhat |
| redhat | perl-Archive-Tar-0:2.38-6.el9_8.1 | 2026-06-29 | redhat |
| redhat | perl:5.32-8100020260616084412.651ee29f | 2026-06-29 | redhat |
| redhat | perl-Archive-Tar-0:2.30-2.el8_10 | 2026-06-29 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| perl | 5.32.1-4 ... 5.44.0-1 (59 versions) |
| — |
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| perl | 5.36.0-7, 5.36.0-7+deb12u1, 5.36.0-7+deb12u2, 5.36.0-7+deb12u3 |
| — |
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| perl | 5.40.1-6 |
| — |
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| perl | 5.40.1-6 ... 5.42.2-3 (9 versions) |
| — |
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