CVE-2026-26158

Impact

A flaw was found in BusyBox. This vulnerability allows an attacker to modify files outside of the intended extraction directory by crafting a malicious tar archive containing unvalidated hardlink or symlink entries. If the tar archive is extracted with elevated privileges, this flaw can lead to privilege escalation, enabling an attacker to gain unauthorized access to critical system files.

Affected packages

This record carries no package version data, so it cannot be matched against a dependency list automatically. Read the advisory and compare your version by hand.

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13831
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-26158
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2439040
• https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/archival?id=3fb6b31c716669e12f75a2accd31bb7685b1a1cb
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13831
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-26158
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2439040
• https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-253495.html
• https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-26158.json