Description
Velero is an open source tool for backing up, restoring, and migrating Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes. Prior to 1.18.1, an attacker who compromises the backup object-storage backend can upload a malicious backup tarball containing parent-directory paths that escape the extraction directory during restore and overwrite sensitive files in the Velero pod filesystem. This issue is fixed in version 1.18.1.
Published: 2026-08-25
Score: 5.9 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-j2g6-362q-6qc6 Velero vulnerable to file path traversal when extracting from backup's tarball
History

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 23:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Velero-io
Velero-io velero
Vendors & Products Velero-io
Velero-io velero

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Velero is an open source tool for backing up, restoring, and migrating Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes. Prior to 1.18.1, an attacker who compromises the backup object-storage backend can upload a malicious backup tarball containing parent-directory paths that escape the extraction directory during restore and overwrite sensitive files in the Velero pod filesystem. This issue is fixed in version 1.18.1.
Title Velero vulnerable to file path traversal when extracting from backup's tarball
Weaknesses CWE-22
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 5.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


Subscriptions

Velero-io Velero
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-28T22:38:21.971Z

Reserved: 2026-03-12T15:29:36.559Z

Link: CVE-2026-32637

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-28T22:38:17.901Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-25T22:17:02.380

Modified: 2026-08-28T23:17:06.490

Link: CVE-2026-32637

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-28T20:34:23Z

Weaknesses