CVE-2026-15687 (GCVE-0-2026-15687)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-07-23 18:43
Modified
2026-07-23 19:03
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VLAI Severity ?
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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.
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| Kubernetes | kubernetes-client/java |
Version: 10.0.0 ≤ Version: 26.0.0 |
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
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