CVE-2026-44885

Portainer Community Edition is a lightweight service delivery platform for containerized applications that can be used to manage Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes and ACI environments. From 2.33.0 to before 2.33.8, Portainer's backup restore feature accepts a .tar.gz archive and extracts it to a target directory on the server. The extraction function (ExtractTarGz in api/archive/targz.go) constructed output paths using filepath.Clean(filepath.Join(outputDirPath, header.Name)). This combination does not prevent directory traversal — a tar entry named ../../etc/cron.d/evil resolves to a path outside the extraction root, so a crafted archive can write files to arbitrary locations on the server filesystem. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.33.8.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:portainer:portainer:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*

History

01 Jun 2026, 18:08

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CPE cpe:2.3:a:portainer:portainer:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
First Time Portainer
Portainer portainer
References () https://github.com/portainer/portainer-suite/pull/1875 - () https://github.com/portainer/portainer-suite/pull/1875 - Broken Link
References () https://github.com/portainer/portainer/security/advisories/GHSA-m8fg-67j7-cx4v - () https://github.com/portainer/portainer/security/advisories/GHSA-m8fg-67j7-cx4v - Exploit, Third Party Advisory

28 May 2026, 22:16

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-05-28 22:16

Updated : 2026-06-01 18:08


NVD link : CVE-2026-44885

Mitre link : CVE-2026-44885

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-44885


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Products Affected

portainer

  • portainer
CWE
CWE-22

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')