CVE-2026-44517
CVE-2026-44517: 1 tracked advisory record across Red Hat. Compare vendor sources and published fix guidance.
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1 advisory- Advisory severityMedium6.3
Medium [CVE-2026-44517] Build breakout via malicious Git repository or tar archive
CVE-2026-44517Source published Source updated
Buildah is a tool that facilitates building OCI images. From 1.38.1 until 1.43.2 and 1.44.0, TempDirForURL in define/types.go does not securely confine Git repository subdirectories to the downloaded build context, and download ToDirectory and stdinToDirectory can follow a Dockerfile symlink left by a partially extracted tar archive. A malicious server supplying a Git repository or tar archive can cause files outside the build context directory to be included in the context or copied into the build. This issue is fixed in versions 1.43.2 and 1.44.0. A flaw was found in Buildah. This could lead to a build breakout, enabling an attacker to manipulate files on the host system. Red Hat ships Buildah as a standalone package and as a bundled dependency in Podman across RHEL, OpenShift, and…
- Affected products in this advisory
- Red Hat Certification Program for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
- Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces
4 more entries in the full advisory.
- Source-reported affected versions
- Affected-version details not available in this record.
- Source-reported fixed versions
- 1.43.2
- 1.44.0
- Mitigation guidance
- Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.
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