Path traversal in confidential-containers guest-components
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 4 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.
Summary
Confidential Containers Guest Components provides guest tools and components for confidential container workloads. From 0.16.0 until 0.20.0, a crafted OCI image layer can make image_rs::stream::unpack::unpack() create a hardlink outside its destination directory. In image-rs/src/stream/unpack.rs, try_hardlink_fallback() validates the hardlink source but computes the destination with destination.join(&entry_rel). Rust Path::join replaces the base when entry_rel is an absolute tar entry path, so fs::hard_link(&src_canon, &dst_entry_abs) can write attacker-controlled content to an arbitrary absolute path. In Confidential Containers the workload owner already controls trusted image content, so the issue is a workload-owner escape into the pod virtual machine rather than a crossing of the image trust boundary, but it may enable access to pod virtual machine capabilities and attestation abuse. This issue is fixed in version 0.20.0.
Why it matters now
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
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| confidential-containers | guest-components | 0.16.0 to before 0.20.0 | 0.20.0 | Patch available | CNA |
- guest-components Vendorconfidential-containers Affected 0.16.0 to before 0.20.0 Fixed in 0.20.0 Patch available CNA
Remediation
- Fix · CNA guest-components (confidential-containers) Fixed in 0.20.0
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Confidential Compute Attestation | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
Not affected: 1 product
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-47699
- 2026-10-18 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-10-18 CVSS score changed · Red Hat
References
Other 6
- https://github.com/confidential-containers/guest-components/security/advisories/GHSA-84rc-2q4r-45pc
- https://github.com/confidential-containers/guest-components/pull/1440
- https://github.com/confidential-containers/guest-components/pull/1457
- https://github.com/confidential-containers/guest-components/commit/14fbb711af0b29bb9cad307969d57b0de9b85d7f
- https://github.com/confidential-containers/guest-components/commit/7cc1bc458973310296e58aedbb15cb7963297bbe
- https://github.com/confidential-containers/guest-components/releases/tag/v0.20.0
More confidential-containers vulnerabilities
- TI-2025-38172 Trustee's attestation-policy endpoint is not protected by admin autentication CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2024-34885 The Attestation Results Token can be arbitrarily modified without being detected in Trustee CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
Sources
- CVE-2026-47699 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-47699 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- CVE-2026-47699 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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