CVE record · CVE-2026-79699

Podman: buildah: skopeo: containers/storage: malicious tar whiteout header allows replacement of extraction destination directory

CVSS 4.4 MediumEPSS 0.0017 · 6th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 15 Sept 2026, 16:25 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-24/eda-controller-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/eda-controller-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/eda-controller-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-27/eda-controller-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: python3.11-podman https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: python3.12-podman https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: python3x-podman https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: python-podman https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Package name: buildah https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Package name: podman https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Package name: skopeo https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: buildah https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: podman https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: skopeo https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: buildah https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: podman https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: python-podman https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: rhel9/buildah https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: rhel9/podman https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: rhel9/skopeo https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: skopeo https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Hardened Images Package name: buildah https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Hardened Images Package name: podman https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Hardened Images Package name: skopeo https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Package name: podman https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Package name: skopeo https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces Package name: devspaces/udi-base-rhel10 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces Package name: devspaces/udi-base-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces Package name: devspaces/udi-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4 Package name: container-native-virtualization/ocp-virt-validation-checkup-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Quay 3 Package name: quay/quay-builder-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Quay 3 Package name: quay/quay-builder-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-79699
CNA: redhat
Weakness (CWE): CWE-59
Tags: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Red Hat Hardened Images
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4
Path traversal
Published: 15 Sept 2026
Updated: 1 Nov 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
4.4	Medium	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0017, the 6th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

15 Sept 2026, 16:25 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List

Sources

References from the CNA

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-79699 vdb-entryredhat
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2523408 issue-trackingredhat

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.