Is this vulnerability remotely exploitable?

It can be, depending on how archives or container images are sourced. If an attacker can deliver a crafted image or archive to an automated loading process, they may trigger the vulnerability without interactive local access.

What level of access does an attacker need to exploit this issue?

The attacker must be able to supply or modify the archive or container image being processed. This could be via a compromised registry, a malicious image distribution channel, or any workflow where untrusted archives are imported.

What is the safest general fix pattern for this vulnerability?

The most robust fix is to normalize and validate every archive member path before extraction, ensuring it cannot escape a designated extraction root and rejecting any entries containing traversal or absolute path components.

Severity:

HIGH RISK

(7.8)

Path Traversal in Archive Extraction (CWE-22) in Container ArchiveReader.extractContents

CVE-2026-20613

Published:

Jan 22, 2026

Status:

Analyzed

Summary

Affected Context

Exploit Preconditions

Why This Happens

Potential Impact

General Mitigation Guidance

How Teams Detect Issues Like This

Frequently Asked Questions

Source

NDV

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Vulnerability Type

Category:

Path Traversal

CWE:

CWE-22

Impact:

Arbitrary File Write

Severity:

HIGH RISK

(7.8)

CVSS Version:

3.1

Vulnerability Type

Category:

Path Traversal

CWE:

CWE-22

Impact:

Arbitrary File Write

Severity:

HIGH RISK

(7.8)

CVSS Version:

3.1

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Path Traversal in Archive Extraction (CWE-22) in Container ArchiveReader.extractContents

Summary

Affected Context

Exploit Preconditions

Why This Happens

Potential Impact

General Mitigation Guidance

How Teams Detect Issues Like This

Frequently Asked Questions

Source

Recent Vulnerabilities

CRITICAL RISK

CRITICAL

(9.8)

Missing Authentication for Forgot-Password Email Change API (CWE-306)

HIGH RISK

HIGH

(7.3)

OS Command Injection (CWE-78) in node-sonos-http-api TTS Provider for macOS

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