UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following Affecting npitre/cramfs-tools package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.02% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NPITRECRAMFSTOOLS-16734799
  • published18 May 2026
  • disclosed18 May 2026
  • creditnich0las

Introduced: 18 May 2026

NewCVE-2026-8784  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-61  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following via the change_file_status function. An attacker can access or modify files outside the intended directory by leveraging symlink following.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1