CVE-2026-17106: Tar extraction in moby/go-archive can write outside the destination directory via link following

Overview

Severity

N/A

Exploit Status

Not Exploited

Patch Tuesday

2026-Aug

Released

2026-08-23

Last Updated

2026-09-10

EPSS Score

0.44% (percentile: 36.3%)

Detection & Weaponization (1 sources)

Maturity: Exploit

• GitHub PoC: 3 repositories

Affected Products (4)

Other

• 21691-17084
• 21742-17084
• 21856-17084
• 21807-17084

Security Updates (1)

• Security Update

Revision History

• 2026-08-23: Information published.
• 2026-08-24: Information published.
• 2026-09-08: Information published.
• 2026-09-09: Information published.
• 2026-09-10: Information published.