CVE-2026-54574
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.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 8.2 High
- Status
- Deferred - security-advisories@github.com
- Published
- 2026-07-29
- Last modified
- 2026-10-24
- Weaknesses
- CWE-61
Affected products
References
- https://github.com/termux/proot-distro/security/advisories/GHSA-9xq3-3fqg-4vg7
- https://github.com/termux/proot-distro/commit/a96d7a9667f38e45d812614852ee3915d1c0ae45
- https://github.com/termux/proot-distro/releases/tag/v5.1.5
