{"id":76957,"date":"2026-02-12T00:46:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-26158-busybox-busybox-arbitrary-file-modification-and-privilege-escalation-via-unvalidated-tar-archive-entries\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T00:46:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:16:21","slug":"cve-2026-26158-busybox-busybox-arbitrary-file-modification-and-privilege-escalation-via-unvalidated-tar-archive-entries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-26158-busybox-busybox-arbitrary-file-modification-and-privilege-escalation-via-unvalidated-tar-archive-entries\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-26158 &#8211; Busybox: busybox: arbitrary file modification and privilege escalation via unvalidated tar archive entries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2026-26158<\/p>\n<p>Published :  Feb. 11, 2026, 9:16 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 8\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Description : A flaw was found in BusyBox. This vulnerability allows an attacker to modify files outside of the intended extraction directory by crafting a malicious tar archive containing unvalidated hardlink or symlink entries. If the tar archive is extracted with elevated privileges, this flaw can lead to privilege escalation, enabling an attacker to gain unauthorized access to critical system files.<\/p>\n<p>Severity: 7.0 | HIGH<\/p>\n<p>Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2026-26158 Published : Feb. 11, 2026, 9:16 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 8\u00a0minutes ago Description : A flaw was found in BusyBox. This vulnerability allows an attacker to modify files outside of the intended extraction directory by crafting a malicious tar archive containing unvalidated hardlink or symlink entries. If the tar archive is extracted &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}