Vulnerability · Published Sep 14, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck
CVE-2026-91200DevSpace through 6.3.21 Path Traversal via tar extraction
High 8.8
In plain English
A high-severity path traversal in devspace from devspace. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.7% (higher than 51% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS 3.1)8.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.7%top 48.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
DevSpace through 6.3.21 fails to reject parent-directory segments in tar entry names from the in-pod sync stream. Attackers operating a malicious container can stream tar entries with traversal sequences to write arbitrary files on the developer workstation, enabling code execution.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-22 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References
- GitHub Issue #3290 issue-tracking
- https://github.com/devspace-sh/devspace product
- https://github.com/devspace-sh/devspace/blob/7f272dcf90653fa9b42bc4347f7f3f9a52b0e8b5/pkg/devspace/sync/tar.go#L68-L82 technical-description
- https://github.com/devspace-sh/devspace/blob/7f272dcf90653fa9b42bc4347f7f3f9a52b0e8b5/pkg/devspace/sync/util.go#L9-L11 technical-description
- VulnCheck Advisory: DevSpace through 6.3.21 Path Traversal via tar extraction third-party-advisory