Malcolm is a network traffic analysis tool suite. Prior to version 26.07.0, `safe-extract.py` protects file extraction with libarchive's secure flags, but creates directory entries with a raw `os.makedirs(os.path.join(dest, entry.pathname))` that has no traversal protection. An uploaded malicious archive containing a directory entry with a `../` sequence or an absolute path causes the filebeat processing container to create directories outside the intended extraction directory. Version 26.07.0 fixes the issue.
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| Description | Malcolm is a network traffic analysis tool suite. Prior to version 26.07.0, `safe-extract.py` protects file extraction with libarchive's secure flags, but creates directory entries with a raw `os.makedirs(os.path.join(dest, entry.pathname))` that has no traversal protection. An uploaded malicious archive containing a directory entry with a `../` sequence or an absolute path causes the filebeat processing container to create directories outside the intended extraction directory. Version 26.07.0 fixes the issue. | |
| Title | Malcolm's Path Traversal in Archive Extraction Allows Arbitrary Directory Creation | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-22 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-08-11T20:29:38.642Z
Reserved: 2026-07-15T16:54:55.817Z
Link: CVE-2026-63134
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-11T21:17:44.307
Modified: 2026-08-11T21:17:44.307
Link: CVE-2026-63134
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