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Zarf is an Airgap Native Packager Manager for Kubernetes. Versions 0.23.0 through 0.74.1 contain an arbitrary file write vulnerability in the zarf package inspect sbom and zarf package inspect documentation subcommands. These subcommands output file paths are constructed by joining a user-controlled output directory with the package's Metadata.Name field read directly from the untrusted package's zarf.yaml manifest. Although Metadata.Name is validated against a regex on package creation, an attacker can unarchive a package to modify the Metadata.Name field to contain path traversal sequences such as ../../etc/cron.d/malicious or absolute paths like /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys, along with the corresponding files inside SBOMS.tar. This allows writing attacker-controlled content to arbitrary filesystem locations within the permissions of the user running the inspect command. This issue has been fixed in version 0.74.2.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-04-09 | Published 2026-04-14 | Updated 2026-04-15 | Assigner GitHub_M




HIGH: 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L

Problem types

CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Product status

>= 0.23.0, < 0.74.2
affected

References

github.com/...v/zarf/security/advisories/GHSA-pj97-4p9w-gx3q

github.com/zarf-dev/zarf/pull/4793

cve.org (CVE-2026-40090)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-40090)

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