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CVE-2026-15687 (GCVE-0-2026-15687)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-07-23 18:43
Modified
2026-07-23 19:03
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Summary
A security issue was discovered in the Kubernetes Java client library where a compromised pod may be able to create new files in arbitrary locations on the client machine executing copy operations via non-tar copyDirectoryFromPod when enableTarCompressing is false.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Kubernetes kubernetes-client/java Version: 10.0.0   
Version: 26.0.0
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