CVE-2026-40090

HIGH EPSS 23.8%
Published Apr 15, 20262mo ago · Modified Jun 17, 20262w ago
7.1 CVSS 3.1
High
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Published Apr 15, 2026 2mo ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 2w ago

Description

Zarf is an Airgap Native Packager Manager for Kubernetes. Versions 0.23.0 through 0.74.1 contain an arbitrary file write vulnerability in the zarf package inspect sbom and zarf package inspect documentation subcommands. These subcommands output file paths are constructed by joining a user-controlled output directory with the package's Metadata.Name field read directly from the untrusted package's zarf.yaml manifest. Although Metadata.Name is validated against a regex on package creation, an attacker can unarchive a package to modify the Metadata.Name field to contain path traversal sequences such as ../../etc/cron.d/malicious or absolute paths like /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys, along with the corresponding files inside SBOMS.tar. This allows writing attacker-controlled content to arbitrary filesystem locations within the permissions of the user running the inspect command. This issue has been fixed in version 0.74.2.

CVSS Details

Base Score
7.1
Exploitability
2.8
Impact
4.2
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity High
Availability Low

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
23.8% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-22 Path Traversal Resource Mgmt

Affected Products 1

VendorProductVersionRange
lfprojectszarf*≥0.23.0  –  <0.74.2

References 2

  • github.com https://github.com/zarf-dev/zarf/pull/4793
    Issue TrackingPatch
  • github.com https://github.com/zarf-dev/zarf/security/advisories/GHSA-pj97-4p9w-gx3q
    PatchVendor Advisory

Remediation

  • github.com https://github.com/zarf-dev/zarf/pull/4793
    Issue TrackingPatch
  • github.com https://github.com/zarf-dev/zarf/security/advisories/GHSA-pj97-4p9w-gx3q
    PatchVendor Advisory