Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere Affecting proot-distro package, versions [,5.1.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PROOTDISTRO-18507999
  • published2 Aug 2026
  • disclosed29 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Jul 2026

NewCVE-2026-54727  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-668  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade proot-distro to version 5.1.6 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 Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere in the restore process. An attacker can access sensitive files from other containers or inject malicious files into them by supplying a crafted backup archive containing hardlink entries with manipulated linkname fields.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1