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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.0 Medium

CVE-2026-55828

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

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

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

qbee-io transport

  • < 1.26.25affected

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