Medium [CVE-2026-41861] BOSH: Path Traversal in BOSH-Ecosystem / BOSH allows an IaaS-metadata attacker to make the agent write a root-owned file wi…
This medium-severity VMware (Broadcom) advisory covers CVE-2026-41861 affecting BOSH.
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Summary
Path Traversal in BOSH-Ecosystem / BOSH allows an IaaS-metadata attacker to make the agent write a root-owned file with partially attacker-controlled body to any path ending in.network, and create any missing parent directories with mode 0777 via network Alias on Ubuntu.
Affected versions: BOSH agent < v2.847.0 (jammy <= v1.1202, or noble <= v1.364). Lower bound unspecified in advisory ("All bosh agent versions").
Mitigation
Upgrade to a fixed release: 2.847.0. That is the remediation for this advisory.
The vendor advisory may list additional interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here — review it before change work.
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