Verified

CVE-2026-108119: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (exact versions not specified); +1 more affected products

Affected technology

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 · Exact affected versions not specified by the source
Red Hat

Red Hat Hardened Images · Exact affected versions not specified by the source
Red Hat

Component: Not specified by the source

Attack conditions (Vendor/CNA, CVSS 3.1): Local · No privileges required · User interaction required

What an attacker can do

An attacker can craft a tar archive using a symlink target of exactly '..' combined with a deferred hardlink to create a new file outside the extraction directory, or reuse an extraction directory across two archives to replace an existing file outside it. Vendor/CNA’s CVSS 3.1 assessment (base score 6.3/10) rates confidentiality impact as none; integrity and availability impact as high.

Published 2026-10-09 21:09:40.886278+00:00

CWE: CWE-59
CVSS 3.1: 6.3 /10 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H · GitHub Advisory Database
KEV: no

Provenance

GitHub Advisory Database · Source record · observed 2026-10-09 22:06:25.045838+00:00 UTC
NVD CVE API 2.0 · Source record · observed 2026-10-09 21:08:49.498434+00:00 UTC

Stable permalink: https://cybercodered.org/item/cve-cve-2026-108119.html