What is GHSA-p44w-25fh-fx4c?

GHSA-p44w-25fh-fx4c is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. A flaw was found in the containers/storage library. A crafted tar archive containing a malicious...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-p44w-25fh-fx4c cover?

GHSA-p44w-25fh-fx4c covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-79699. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-p44w-25fh-fx4c?

GHSA-p44w-25fh-fx4c has a CVSS v3 base score of 4.4, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-p44w-25fh-fx4cMediumCVSS 4.4

A flaw was found in the containers/storage library. A crafted tar archive containing a malicious...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

September 15, 2026

Last Modified

September 15, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-79699 →

📋 Description

A flaw was found in the containers/storage library. A crafted tar archive containing a malicious whiteout header (e.g. victim/.wh.) can cause the extraction destination directory to be replaced with an arbitrary file when processed by storage/pkg/archive.UnpackLayer, ApplyLayer, or ApplyUncompressedLayer.

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-79699
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-79699
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2523408
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p44w-25fh-fx4c