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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-29136

Open Container Initiative umoci before 0.4.7 allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary host paths via a crafted image that causes symlink traversal when "umoci unpack" or "umoci raw unpack" is used.

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1 Nov 2026, 08:47 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2021-29136

core-osv · Original source

Published 6 Apr 2021, 16:15 UTC

Open Container Initiative umoci before 0.4.7 allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary host paths via a crafted image that causes symlink traversal when "umoci unpack" or "umoci raw unpack" is used.

osv:CVE-2021-29136
Complete source record
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  "method": "structured",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
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