CVE-2026-79699

LOWCVSS 4.4 · MEDIUM

Signal is active with 1 mentions in latest observed window

Immediate actions

Track advisory updates for patch or workaround availability

Recommended action window: Monitor and triage in normal cycle

NVD description

A flaw was found in the containers/storage library. A crafted tar archive containing a malicious whiteout header (e.g. victim/.wh.) can cause the extraction destination directory to be replaced with an arbitrary file when processed by storage/pkg/archive.UnpackLayer, ApplyLayer, or ApplyUncompressedLayer.

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0.0/ 10 priority

Sources & remediation

Other references

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-59

Priority

LOW

Exploitation

NONE

PoC

NONE

Patch

NONE

Momentum

NONE

Threat summary

1 mentions across 1 observed day

What's happening

1 total mentions across 1 day

Deep dive

Activity timeline1 mentions / 1d

Referenced assets2 URLs

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Full discourse1 post

Podman@Podman_io1d
Two more Podman releases dropped! Podman v6.1.2 (https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/releases/tag/v6.1.2) and v5.8.7 (https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/releases/tag/v5.8.7). Both address 3 CVEs: CVE-2025-11395, CVE-2026-79699, and CVE-2026-79705. #podman #opensource
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