Path traversal / arbitrary file write in oc-mirror's operator catalog image extraction. When mirroring operator catalogs using either the legacy v1 path (--v1) or the OCI feature path (--use-oci-feature), oc-mirror extracts tar entries from catalog image layers without validating that file paths resolve within the intended destination directory.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

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Red Hat Assisted Installer for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 2 unknown —
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 unknown —
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 unknown —

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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-101295 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2522941 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/openshift/oc-mirror/blob/22a5722/v1/pkg/cli/mirror/catalog_images.go#L680 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/openshift/oc-mirror/blob/22a5722/v1/pkg/cli/mirror/fbc_operators.go#L334-L369 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-101295 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-101295 cve-icon
History

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:15:00 +0000

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 threat_severity

Moderate

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:30:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:30:00 +0000

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Description Path traversal / arbitrary file write in oc-mirror's operator catalog image extraction. When mirroring operator catalogs using either the legacy v1 path (--v1) or the OCI feature path (--use-oci-feature), oc-mirror extracts tar entries from catalog image layers without validating that file paths resolve within the intended destination directory.
Title Oc-mirror: oc-mirror: path traversal / arbitrary file write in operator catalog image extraction
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat assisted Installer
Redhat openshift
Weaknesses CWE-22
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:assisted_installer:2
cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat assisted Installer
Redhat openshift
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-30T20:01:03.013Z

Reserved: 2026-09-28T13:01:18.667Z

Link: CVE-2026-101295

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-30T19:43:05.053Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-09-30T15:22:19.423

Modified: 2026-09-30T21:16:55.080

Link: CVE-2026-101295

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2026-09-30T12:41:11Z

Links: CVE-2026-101295 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-30T16:30:12Z

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