Medium6.2Red Hat Linux

Medium [CVE-2026-31802] File overwrite via drive-relative symlink traversal

This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-31802 affecting devspaces/dashboard-rhel9:1779341289, devspaces/code-rhel9:1779814592, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

CVE-2026-31802 Published Mar 9, 2026

CVE-2026-31802

Affected products & platforms

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Summary

File overwrite via drive-relative symlink traversal. Red Hat rates this moderate (CVSS 6.2).

Weakness: CWE-22. Affected package(s): devspaces/dashboard-rhel9:1779341289, devspaces/code-rhel9:1779814592.

Resolved in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2026:21772 — update the affected packages (`sudo dnf update`).

Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Affected versions

devspaces/dashboard-rhel9:1779341289
devspaces/code-rhel9:1779814592

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 months ago·verify at source

Fixed versions

RHSA-2026:21772

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 months ago·verify at source

Mitigation checklist

Recommended fix / mitigation

Update the affected package(s) to the fixed version shipped in RHSA-2026:21772 (`sudo dnf update` / `yum update`).

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 months ago·verify at source

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