Medium severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 25, 2026· Updated Sep 9, 2026

CVE-2026-32637

Description

Velero is an open source tool for backing up, restoring, and migrating Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes. Prior to 1.18.1, an attacker who compromises the backup object-storage backend can upload a malicious backup tarball containing parent-directory paths that escape the extraction directory during restore and overwrite sensitive files in the Velero pod filesystem. This issue is fixed in version 1.18.1.

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Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
github.com/vmware-tanzu/veleroGo	< 1.18.1	1.18.1

Affected products

Velero/Velerollm-fuzzy
Range: <1.18.1
osv-coords11 versions
pkg:apk/chainguard/velero-plugin-for-aws pkg:apk/chainguard/velero-plugin-for-aws-compat pkg:apk/chainguard/velero-plugin-for-aws-fips pkg:apk/chainguard/velero-plugin-for-gcp pkg:apk/chainguard/velero-plugin-for-gcp-fips pkg:apk/chainguard/velero-plugin-for-microsoft-azure pkg:apk/chainguard/velero-plugin-for-microsoft-azure-fips pkg:apk/wolfi/velero-plugin-for-aws pkg:apk/wolfi/velero-plugin-for-aws-compat pkg:apk/wolfi/velero-plugin-for-microsoft-azure pkg:rpm/opensuse/govulncheck-vulndb&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0
< 1.14.2-r8+ 10 more
- (no CPE)range: < 1.14.2-r8
- (no CPE)range: < 1.14.2-r8
- (no CPE)range: < 1.14.2-r7
- (no CPE)range: < 1.14.2-r9
- (no CPE)range: < 1.14.2-r8
- (no CPE)range: < 1.14.2-r6
- (no CPE)range: < 1.14.2-r6
- (no CPE)range: < 1.14.2-r8
- (no CPE)range: < 1.14.2-r8
- (no CPE)range: < 1.14.2-r6
- (no CPE)range: < 0.0.20260827T195228-160000.1.1

cvss	0.260
epss	0.000
exploit	0.000
kev	0.000
patch	-0.070
ransomware	0.000

CVE-2026-32637

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