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High · 7.8 CVE-2026-20613 EUVD-2026-4539GHSA-cq3j-qj2h-6rv3

Container and Containerization archive extraction does not guard against escapes from extraction base directory.

Published Jan 22, 2026 · Updated Jan 23, 2026 · Assigned by apple

Description

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. This issue is addressed in container 0.8.0 and containerization 0.21.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Apple Container unspecified – < 0.7.1 0.7.1
Apple Containerization unspecified – < 0.20.1 0.20.1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
SwiftURL github.com/apple/container < 0.8.0 0.8.0 GHSA-cq3j-qj2h-6rv3
SwiftURL github.com/apple/containerization < 0.21.0 0.21.0 GHSA-cq3j-qj2h-6rv3

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