VulnerabilityAwaiting Analysis

CVE-2026-15028

This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive.

LOW 3.9EPSS 0.20%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.20%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

A flaw was found in libarchive. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive. The issue occurs during the parsing of a PAX extended header containing a malformed SUN.holesdata sparse-file attribute. Successful exploitation could lead to a denial of service, making the system unavailable, or potentially allow for arbitrary code execution, giving the attacker control over the affected system.

CVSS 3.1: 3.9 LOWCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
EPSS: 0.20% probability · 10th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-805, CWE-122
Source: secalert@redhat.com

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.