UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following Affecting bbot package, versions [2.3.1,2.8.5)
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- published29 Jun 2026
- disclosed18 Jun 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 18 Jun 2026
CVE-2026-12565 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade bbot to version 2.8.5 or higher.
Overview
bbot is an OSINT automation for hackers.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following via the unarchive process. An attacker can overwrite arbitrary files outside the intended extraction directory by submitting a specially crafted archive containing directory traversal sequences. This is only exploitable if the system is using GNU tar versions earlier than 1.34.