CVE-2024-0406: Mholt Archiver

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was discovered in the mholt/archiver package. This flaw allows an attacker to create a specially crafted tar file, which, when unpacked, may allow access to restricted files or directories. This issue can allow the creation or overwriting of files with the user's or application's privileges using the library.

Affected products

• Mholt Archiver: from 3.0.0, before 4.0.0 (fixed in 4.0.0)
• Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security: version 3.0 only
• Red Hat Openshift Container Platform: from 4.18, before 4.18.4 (fixed in 4.18.4)

Published 2024-04-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.