CVE-2026-28407
malcontent is software for discovering supply-chain compromises through context, differential analysis, and YARA. Prior to version 1.21.0, malcontent would remove nested archives which failed to extract which could potentially leave malicious content. A better approach is to preserve these archives so that malcontent can attempt a best-effort scan of the archive bytes. Version 1.21.0 fixes the issue.
Scoring
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS base score
- 6.9
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- EPSS probability
- 0.35%
- CWE
- CWE-703
- Published
- 2026-02-27
- Last modified
- 2026-03-12
Affected products
- chainguard-dev malcontent
Weakness type
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