Path Traversal in BOSH-Ecosystem / BOSH allows an IaaS-metadata attacker to make the agent write a root-owned file with partially attacker-controlled body to any path ending in .network, and create any missing parent directories with mode 0777 via network Alias on Ubuntu.



Affected versions: BOSH agent < v2.847.0 (jammy <= v1.1202, or noble <= v1.364). Lower bound unspecified in advisory ("All bosh agent versions").

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Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:15:00 +0000

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Description Path Traversal in BOSH-Ecosystem / BOSH allows an IaaS-metadata attacker to make the agent write a root-owned file with partially attacker-controlled body to any path ending in .network, and create any missing parent directories with mode 0777 via network Alias on Ubuntu. Affected versions: BOSH agent < v2.847.0 (jammy <= v1.1202, or noble <= v1.364). Lower bound unspecified in advisory ("All bosh agent versions").
Title Arbitrary Root File Write via Path Traversal in BOSH agent
Weaknesses CWE-22
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L'}


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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

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Updated: 2026-08-06T21:22:46.271Z

Reserved: 2026-04-22T06:22:10.082Z

Link: CVE-2026-41861

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