CVE-2026-54574

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-54574
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-54574.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-54574
Aliases
Published
2026-07-29T16:32:15Z
Modified
2026-10-21T02:58:34Z
Severity
  • 8.2 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
`proot-distro install` has a Symlink Escape (Arbitrary Host File Write) via Malicious Tar Archive
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner":  "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-61"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/54xxx/CVE-2026-54574.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/termux/proot-distro

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/termux/proot-distro
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
d6dff97aee4736e5940820c832866feb48c82428
Fixed
a96d7a9667f38e45d812614852ee3915d1c0ae45
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed":  "5.1.5"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "strategy":  "StringRangeExpression"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "a96d7a9667f38e45d812614852ee3915d1c0ae45"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        },
        {
            "original_tag":  "v5.1.5",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "d6dff97aee4736e5940820c832866feb48c82428"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_TAG"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v0.*
v0.1
v0.10
v0.2
v0.2.1
v0.3
v0.4
v0.5
v0.6
v0.7
v0.8
v0.9
v1.*
v1.0
v1.1
v1.1-debian-rootfs
v1.10.0
v1.10.1
v1.2
v1.2-alpine-rootfs
v1.2-arch-rootfs
v1.2-ubuntu-bionic-rootfs
v1.2-ubuntu-focal-rootfs
v1.3
v1.3.1
v1.3.2
v1.3.3
v1.4.0
v1.4.0-debian-rootfs
v1.4.0-fedora-rootfs
v1.5.0
v1.6.0
v1.6.1
v1.6.2
v1.7.0
v1.8.0
v1.9.0
v1.9.0-updated-distributions
v2.*
v2.0.0
v2.0.1
v2.1.0
v2.1.1
v2.2.0
v2.3.0
v2.3.1
v2.4.0
v2.5.0
v2.6.0
v2.6.1
v2.6.2
v2.6.3
v2.6.4
v2.6.5
v2.6.6
v2.6.7
v2.6.8
v2.6.9
v2.7.0
v2.8.0
v2.9.0
v2.9.1
v2.9.2
v2.9.3
v2.9.4
v2.9.5
v3.*
v3.0.0
v3.0.1
v3.0.2
v3.1.0
v3.1.1
v3.1.2
v3.10.0
v3.11.0
v3.12.0
v3.12.1
v3.13.0
v3.14.0
v3.15.0
v3.15.1
v3.15.2
v3.16.0
v3.17.0
v3.18.0
v3.18.1
v3.2.0
v3.2.1
v3.3.0
v3.4.0
v3.5.0
v3.5.1
v3.6.0
v3.6.1
v3.7.0
v3.8.0
v3.9.0
v3.9.1
v4.*
v4.0.0
v4.0.1
v4.0.2
v4.1.0
v4.10.0
v4.11.0
v4.12.0
v4.13.0
v4.14.0
v4.14.1
v4.15.0
v4.16.0
v4.17.0
v4.17.1
v4.17.2
v4.17.3
v4.18.0
v4.19.0
v4.2.0
v4.20.0
v4.21.0
v4.22.0
v4.22.1
v4.23.0
v4.24.0
v4.25.0
v4.26.0
v4.27.0
v4.28.0
v4.29.0
v4.3.0
v4.3.1
v4.30.0
v4.30.1
v4.31.0
v4.32.0
v4.33.0
v4.33.1
v4.33.2
v4.34.0
v4.34.1
v4.34.2
v4.35.0
v4.36.0
v4.37.0
v4.38.0
v4.4.0
v4.5.0
v4.6.0
v4.7.0
v4.8.0
v4.9.0
v5.*
v5.0.0
v5.0.0b2
v5.0.0b3
v5.0.0b4
v5.0.0b5
v5.0.1
v5.0.2
v5.1.0
v5.1.1
v5.1.2
v5.1.3
v5.1.4

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-54574.json"