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Tar extraction path traversal in moby/go-archive allows an attacker who controls archive contents to create or overwrite files outside the intended destination directory, undermining container-to-host filesystem boundaries. The affected functions - Unpack, UnpackLayer, Untar, UntarUncompressed, and ApplyLayer - perform lexical path validation but rely on OS-level resolution at operation time, meaning symlinks introduced inside the archive redirect writes to arbitrary paths writable by the extracting process. This flaw propagates through the full Docker ecosystem including Docker Engine, Docker Desktop, Docker CLI, Docker Compose, and Docker Sandboxes; vendor-released patches are available and no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis.
Tar extraction path traversal in moby/go-archive allows an attacker who controls archive contents to create or overwrite files outside the intended destination directory, undermining container-to-host filesystem boundaries. The affected functions - Unpack, UnpackLayer, Untar, UntarUncompressed, and ApplyLayer - perform lexical path validation but rely on OS-level resolution at operation time, meaning symlinks introduced inside the archive redirect writes to arbitrary paths writable by the extracting process. This flaw propagates through the full Docker ecosystem including Docker Engine, Docker Desktop, Docker CLI, Docker Compose, and Docker Sandboxes; vendor-released patches are available and no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis.