CVE intelligence

CVE-2026-33056

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Mar 20, 2026Sources checked Oct 3, 2026

6.5MEDIUMCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-33056 and is rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 6.5. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

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CBL-Mariner Releases Release Notes

Vendor-listed releases

1.72.0-16
1.75.0-28
1.90.0-7
1.5.2-2
2022.1-9
0.22.0-1
2024.4-10

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.4%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2026-33056?

tar-rs is a tar archive reading/writing library for Rust. In versions 0.4.44 and below, when unpacking a tar archive, the tar crate's unpack_dir function uses fs::metadata() to check whether a path that already exists is a directory. Because fs::metadata() follows symbolic links, a crafted tarball containing a symlink entry followed by a directory entry with the same name causes the crate to treat the symlink target as a valid existing directory — and subsequently apply chmod to it. This allows an attacker to modify the permissions of arbitrary directories outside the extraction root. This issue has been fixed in version 0.4.45.