CVE-2026-79699 — Podman: buildah: skopeo: containers/storage: malicious tar whiteout header allows replacement of extraction destination directory
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 director…
Published: 2026-09-15 · CVSS: 4.4 · CVSS 3.1
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7