Answer in brief
CVE-2026-79699 records a Medium severity (CVSS 4.4) vulnerability in Podman: buildah: skopeo: containers/storage: malicious tar whiteout header allows replacement of extraction destination directory. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Red Hat/ansible-automation-platform-24/eda-controller-rhel8 (generic), Red Hat/ansible-automation-platform-25/eda-controller-rhel8 (generic), Red Hat/ansible-automation-platform-26/eda-controller-rhel9 (generic), Red Hat/ansible-automation-platform-27/eda-controller-rhel9 (generic) and additional mapped packages. Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 4.4. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
Factual feed record only; HOL analysis is not approved for indexing. Read the methodology.
The current feed maps Red Hat/ansible-automation-platform-24/eda-controller-rhel8 (generic), Red Hat/ansible-automation-platform-25/eda-controller-rhel8 (generic), Red Hat/ansible-automation-platform-26/eda-controller-rhel9 (generic), Red Hat/ansible-automation-platform-27/eda-controller-rhel9 (generic) and additional mapped packages. Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat/ansible-automation-platform-24/eda-controller-rhel8generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/ansible-automation-platform-25/eda-controller-rhel8generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/ansible-automation-platform-26/eda-controller-rhel9generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/ansible-automation-platform-27/eda-controller-rhel9generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/buildahgeneric | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/container-native-virtualization/ocp-virt-validation-checkup-rhel9generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/devspaces/udi-base-rhel10generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/devspaces/udi-base-rhel9generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/devspaces/udi-rhel9generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/podmangeneric | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/python3.11-podmangeneric | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/python3.12-podmangeneric | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/python3x-podmangeneric | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/python-podmangeneric | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/quay/quay-builder-rhel8generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/quay/quay-builder-rhel9generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/rhel9/buildahgeneric | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/rhel9/podmangeneric | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/rhel9/skopeogeneric | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/skopeogeneric | * | Not reported |
Published upstream
Sep 15, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Oct 2, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Sep 15, 2026
A flaw was found in the containers/storage library. A crafted tar archive containing a malicious whiteout header (e.g. victim/.wh.) can cause the extraction destination directory to be replaced with an arbitrary file when processed by storage/pkg/archive.UnpackLayer, ApplyLayer, or ApplyUncompressedLayer.
Quoted source text, attributed separately from HOL analysis.