{"items":[{"id":"NVI-00016038","kind":"vulnerability","title":"PRoot-Distro has Path Traversal in proot-distro copy — Arbitrary Read, Write, and Persistent Code Execution Outside Container Rootfs","revision":1,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected."],"lifecycle":"active","identifiers":["GHSA-mfr4-mq8w-vmg6"],"plain_summary":"GitHub lists this reviewed advisory for proot-distro. Published version ranges and source prerequisites are shown below; this is not an inspection of a visitor’s application.","review_status":"source_listed","control_topics":[],"public_actions":[{"summary":"Identify the exact component and deployed version, examine the linked publisher’s conditions, and retain evidence of any mitigation.","source_ids":["sr-0c58e92508f9324e436bf439dc35c590"],"action_type":"investigate","limitations":"Confirm current vendor support, compatibility and deployment evidence. This report has not tested a fix in your system.","current_supported_target":null}],"schema_version":"1.1.0","source_metrics":[{"kind":"CVSS","as_of":"2026-07-17T20:25:38.000Z","value":"6.6 medium","meaning":"GitHub source severity; exploitability and local consequence require separate evidence.","source_id":"sr-0c58e92508f9324e436bf439dc35c590"}],"why_it_matters":"Published affected context helps an owner decide what evidence to gather. This report has not examined your application.","related_sources":[{"id":"sr-0c58e92508f9324e436bf439dc35c590","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mfr4-mq8w-vmg6","basis":"vendor_advisory","notes":"GitHub Advisory Database; CC-BY-4.0. Each advisory links its original attribution. Null normalizes fields.","title":"GHSA-mfr4-mq8w-vmg6","publisher":"GitHub Advisory Database","observed_at":"2026-11-04T02:49:06.528Z"}],"affected_context":[{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-0c58e92508f9324e436bf439dc35c590"],"technology":"proot-distro","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"Path Traversal in proot-distro copy — Arbitrary Read, Write, and Persistent Code Execution Outside Container Rootfs\nRepository\nhttps://github.com/termux/proot-distro\nMaintainer: @sylirre\n\nAffected Component\n\nPackage: proot-distro\nAffected command: copy\nAttack surface: Host-side Termux CLI — this is not a guest distro shell issue\nVulnerability type: Path Traversal (CWE-22)\n\n\nAffected Versions\n\nComponent | Version\n-- | --\nproot-distro | 4.38.0 (initially discovered), 5.0.2 (confirmed still affected — tested on 2026-05-19)\nTest distro | Ubuntu 25.10 \"Questing Quokka\" (ubuntu alias)\nArchitecture | aarch64\nDevice | Samsung A23\nPackage source | https://packages-cf.termux.dev/apt/termux-main stable/main aarch64\n\n\n\nProof of Concept\nAll tests were performed using only self-owned files and harmless marker data.\nNo root was used. No third-party data was involved. The .bashrc overwritten\nduring testing was immediately restored.</p","public_affected_ranges":["< 5.1.0"]}],"null_published_at":"2026-11-04T10:04:27.868Z","source_updated_at":"2026-07-17T20:25:38.000Z","source_disclosed_at":"2026-07-17T20:25:37.000Z","is_synthetic_fixture":false,"null_last_reviewed_at":null,"public_change_summary":"First indexed by Null; source disclosure date is shown separately.","null_first_observed_at":"2026-11-04T02:49:06.528Z"}],"next_cursor":null,"snapshot_revision":"42594"}