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Medium · 6.0 CVE-2026-55828 EUVD-2026-78783GHSA-f9m7-vc86-p6jjGO-2026-5352

qbee transport: Symlink-chain path traversal in tar extraction (one level outside destination)

Published Sep 15, 2026 · Updated Sep 15, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

qbee transport is a remote access transport protocol implementation. Prior to 1.26.25, the extractTar routine uses strictly lexical path validation that does not account for on-disk symlinks created earlier in the extraction process. A crafted tar archive can use a symlink chain to write or overwrite files one directory level above the intended extraction path. When qbee-agent performs the extraction with root privileges, this permits a root-privileged file write outside the intended destination. This issue is fixed in version 1.26.25.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
qbee-io transport < 1.26.25 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go go.qbee.io/transport < 1.26.25 1.26.25 GHSA-f9m7-vc86-p6jj

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