Executive brief
malcontent vulnerable to symlink Path Traversal via handleSymlink argument confusion in archive extraction in github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent
Affected products
- Go github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent
Junglewise Threat Intelligence
CVE-2026-24846: GO-2026-4391 - malcontent vulnerable to symlink Path Traversal via handleSymlink argument confusion in archive extraction in github.com/chainguard-dev/malc
CVE-2026-24846 · Severity: low · CVSS 3.1 · Published 2026-02-02
Technologies: github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent (Go). Vendors: Go.
Related threats
- GO-2026-4577 - malcontent: Nested archive extraction failure can drop content from scan inputs in github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent
- GO-2026-4583 - malcontent: Error-path cleanup gap can leak scanners and fds and degrade availability in github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent
- malcontent: Error-path cleanup gap can leak scanners and fds and degrade availability
- GO-2026-4392 - malcontent OCI image pull credential exfiltration via malicious registry token realm in github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent