CVE-2026-28407: malcontent: Nested archive extraction failure can drop content from scan inputs
Previously, malcontent would remove nested archives which failed to extract which could potentially leave malicious content. A better approach is to preserve these archives so that malcontent can attempt a best-effort scan of the archive bytes.
Fix: https://github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent/pull/1383
Acknowledgements
malcontent thanks Oleh Konko from 1seal for discovering and reporting this issue.
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-945p-3jhm-6rcp
- github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent
- github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent/commit/356c56659ccfcad0b249a97de8cf71f151ed3ee9
- github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent/pull/1383
- github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent/security/advisories/GHSA-945p-3jhm-6rcp
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-28407
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