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National Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2026-54574 Detail

Description

proot-distro is a utility for managing proot containers. Prior to version 5.1.5, proot-distro install extracted plain tarball root filesystems through _extract_plain_tar() in proot_distro/commands/install.py and Docker layers through _apply_layer() in proot_distro/helpers/docker.py without validating archive-controlled symlink targets in member.linkname, allowing a malicious archive to plant an absolute host-path symlink and write files through it onto the host filesystem. This issue is fixed in version 5.1.5.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://github.com/termux/proot-distro/commit/a96d7a9667f38e45d812614852ee3915d1c0ae45 GitHub, Inc.
https://github.com/termux/proot-distro/releases/tag/v5.1.5 GitHub, Inc.
https://github.com/termux/proot-distro/security/advisories/GHSA-9xq3-3fqg-4vg7 CISA-ADP, GitHub, Inc.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-61 UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following GitHub, Inc.  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2026-54574
NVD Published Date:
07/29/2026
NVD Last Modified:
07/29/2026
Source:
GitHub, Inc.