# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-79705"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-15T16:23:26.652Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-02T14:00:38.735Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-79705"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-79705.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-79705"
title: "Podman: buildah: buildah/copier: directory escape via crafted tar symlinks when used outside buildah by non-root callers"
summary: "A flaw was found in the buildah/copier Go package. When used outside of Buildah by a non-root caller, a crafted tar archive containing malicious symlinks can escape the target extraction directory and create files outside the intended destination. Buildah itself uses chroot hardening and is not affected."
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