Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kots-compat (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
The probability is the direct output of the EPSS model, and conveys an overall sense of the threat of exploitation in the wild. The percentile measures the EPSS probability relative to all known EPSS scores. Note: This data is updated daily, relying on the latest available EPSS model version. Check out the EPSS documentation for more details.
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- published12 Jan 2026
- disclosed6 Apr 2024
Introduced: 6 Apr 2024
CVE-2024-0406 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Chainguard security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Chainguard:latest.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kots-compat package and not the kots-compat package as distributed by Chainguard.
A flaw was discovered in the mholt/archiver package. This flaw allows an attacker to create a specially crafted tar file, which, when unpacked, may allow access to restricted files or directories. This issue can allow the creation or overwriting of files with the user's or application's privileges using the library.