UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following Affecting proot-distro package, versions [,5.1.5)
Threat Intelligence
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- published2 Aug 2026
- disclosed29 Jul 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 29 Jul 2026
NewCVE-2026-54574 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade proot-distro to version 5.1.5 or higher.
Overview
proot-distro is a PRoot-Distro is a lightweight rootless Linux container management utility built around proot.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following in the proot_distro/commands/install.py function and the equivalent process in helpers/docker.py when extracting a tar archive containing a symlink whose target is an absolute host path. An attacker can overwrite arbitrary files on the host system with the privileges of the Termux process by supplying a malicious tar archive containing such a symlink and a subsequent file entry that traverses through it.