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CVE-2026-24846

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2026-24846 describes a path traversal vulnerability in Chainguard malcontent versions 1.8.0 through 1.20.2, where specially crafted tar or deb archives could lead to symlinks being created outside the intended extraction directory due to incorrect argument handling and insufficient validation. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (Medium), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and potentially leading to high integrity impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 1.8.0, < 1.20.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:chainguard:malcontent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.17%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
6.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0017 is in the 40th percentile among its peer group of 381 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontentFixed in: 1.20.3

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-923j-vrcg-hxwhmedium

malcontent vulnerable to symlink Path Traversal via handleSymlink argument confusion in archive extraction

Jan 29, 2026

References

github.com / chainguard-dev/malcontent/commit/259fca5abc004f3ab238895463ef280a87f30e96
Patch
github.com / chainguard-dev/malcontent/commit/a7dd8a5328ddbaf235568437813efa7591e00017
Patch
github.com / chainguard-dev/malcontent/security/advisories/GHSA-923j-vrcg-hxwh
Vendor Advisory