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TI-2026-28918 Aliases CVE-2026-40090GHSA-pj97-4p9w-gx3q

Zarf has a Path Traversal via Malicious Package Metadata.Name — Arbitrary File Write

Priority LOW 31CWE-22Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · High · Low
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.

Summary

Zarf is an Airgap Native Packager Manager for Kubernetes. Versions 0.23.0 through 0.74.1 contain an arbitrary file write vulnerability in the zarf package inspect sbom and zarf package inspect documentation subcommands. These subcommands output file paths are constructed by joining a user-controlled output directory with the package's Metadata.Name field read directly from the untrusted package's zarf.yaml manifest. Although Metadata.Name is validated against a regex on package creation, an attacker can unarchive a package to modify the Metadata.Name field to contain path traversal sequences such as ../../etc/cron.d/malicious or absolute paths like /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys, along with the corresponding files inside SBOMS.tar. This allows writing attacker-controlled content to arbitrary filesystem locations within the permissions of the user running the inspect command. This issue has been fixed in version 0.74.2.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.0032 25th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed zarf (zarf-dev): 0.74.2github.com/zarf-dev/zarf (Go): 0.74.2

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
zarf-devzarf0.23.0 to before 0.74.20.74.2Patch availableCNA
—github.com/zarf-dev/zarf (Go)0.23.0 to before 0.74.20.74.2Patch availableGHSA-pj97-4p9w-gx3q
  • zarf Vendorzarf-dev Affected 0.23.0 to before 0.74.2 Fixed in 0.74.2 Patch available CNA
  • github.com/zarf-dev/zarf (Go) Vendor— Affected 0.23.0 to before 0.74.2 Fixed in 0.74.2 Patch available GHSA-pj97-4p9w-gx3q

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:lfprojects:zarf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*0.23.0 to before 0.74.2VulnerableMLflow
  • cpe:2.3:a:lfprojects:zarf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 0.23.0 to before 0.74.2 Vulnerable ·MLflow

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA zarf (zarf-dev) Fixed in 0.74.2
  • Fix · GHSA-pj97-4p9w-gx3q github.com/zarf-dev/zarf (Go) Fixed in 0.74.2 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-40090
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-pj97-4p9w-gx3q

References

  • TI-2026-23209 Zarf: Symlink targets in archives are not validated against destination directory CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.2

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