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TI-2026-40110 Aliases CVE-2026-55569GHSA-mf5c-hw34-4hpp

aqua: Archive extraction in aqua follows attacker-planted symlinks, allowing writes outside the install directory

Priority MEDIUM 62CWE-22Published · Updated

Key facts

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

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

Summary

aqua is a declarative command-line version manager written in Go. Prior to 2.60.1, pkg/unarchive/archives.go in the handler.HandleFile method calls os.Symlink with archives.FileInfo.LinkTarget without verifying that the target remains under the extraction destination. A later regular-file entry at the same archive path is opened with OpenFile using O_CREATE and O_WRONLY, which follows the attacker-planted symlink. A malicious or compromised package archive can therefore write attacker-controlled bytes outside aqua's extraction directory with the privileges of the user running aqua, potentially overwriting shell startup files, tool configuration, or writable executable paths. This issue is fixed in version 2.60.1.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00181 7th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed aqua (aquaproj): 2.60.1github.com/aquaproj/aqua/v2 (Go): 2.60.1

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
Poc
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
aquaprojaquabefore 2.60.12.60.1Patch availableCNA
—github.com/aquaproj/aqua/v2 (Go)before 2.60.12.60.1Patch availableGHSA-mf5c-hw34-4hpp
  • aqua Vendoraquaproj Affected before 2.60.1 Fixed in 2.60.1 Patch available CNA
  • github.com/aquaproj/aqua/v2 (Go) Vendor— Affected before 2.60.1 Fixed in 2.60.1 Patch available GHSA-mf5c-hw34-4hpp

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA aqua (aquaproj) Fixed in 2.60.1
  • Fix · GHSA-mf5c-hw34-4hpp github.com/aquaproj/aqua/v2 (Go) Fixed in 2.60.1 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-55569
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-mf5c-hw34-4hpp

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