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High severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 27, 2026· Updated Mar 2, 2026

kaniko has tar archive path traversal in build context extraction allows writing files outside destination directory

CVE-2026-28406

Description

kaniko is a tool to build container images from a Dockerfile, inside a container or Kubernetes cluster. Starting in version 1.25.4 and prior to version 1.25.10, kaniko unpacks build context archives using filepath.Join(dest, cleanedName) without enforcing that the final path stays within dest. A tar entry like ../outside.txt escapes the extraction root and writes files outside the destination directory. In environments with registry authentication, this can be chained with docker credential helpers to achieve code execution within the executor process. Version 1.25.10 uses securejoin for path resolution in tar extraction.

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
github.com/chainguard-dev/kanikoGo
>= 1.25.4, < 1.25.101.25.10

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