# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-18477"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-03T15:34:36.627Z"
updatedAt: "2026-09-22T21:29:33.554Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:55.771Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-18477"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-18477.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-18477"
title: "Tar: tar: toctou in incremental dumpdir 'x' rename handling allows restore path escape"
summary: "A TOCTOU (Time-of-Check Time-of-Use) vulnerability in GNU tar's incremental dumpdir 'X' rename handling allows a local attacker with write access to a directory being backed up to influence the restore process if the attacker has access to the system where the restore is being performed. During restoration, files or directories may be created, renamed or overwritten outside the intended extraction directory. This could lead to unauthorized file modification or, in some cases, privilege escalation. Exploitation does not require the attacker to modify or craft the archive, and standard backup and restore workflows—including extracting into a newly created directory without using the -P option do not mitigate the issue."
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