CVE-2026-79699: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in the containers/storage library. A crafted tar archive containing a malicious whiteout header (e.g. victim/.wh.) can cause the extraction destination directory to be replaced with an arbitrary file when processed by storage/pkg/archive.UnpackLayer, ApplyLayer, or ApplyUncompressedLayer.

Affected products

• Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
• Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
• Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
• Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
• Red Hat Red Hat Hardened Images
• Red Hat Red Hat Openshift Container Platform 4
• Red Hat Red Hat Openshift Dev Spaces
• Red Hat Red Hat Openshift Virtualization 4
• Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3

Published 2026-09-15. Last modified 2026-10-02.