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GO-2026-4391
malcontent vulnerable to symlink Path Traversal via handleSymlink argument confusion in archive extraction in github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent
Quick fix
GO-2026-4391 — github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
go get github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent@v1.20.3Details
malcontent vulnerable to symlink Path Traversal via handleSymlink argument confusion in archive extraction in github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent
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Affected packages
Go/github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent
Introduced in:
1.8.0Fixed in: 1.20.3Fix
go get github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent@v1.20.3References
- https://github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent/security/advisories/GHSA-923j-vrcg-hxwh[ADVISORY]
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-24846[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent/commit/259fca5abc004f3ab238895463ef280a87f30e96[FIX]
- https://github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent/commit/a7dd8a5328ddbaf235568437813efa7591e00017[FIX]