CVE-2026-15687

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-22 Path Traversal

Publication date:

23/07/2026

Last modified:

23/07/2026

Description

A security issue was discovered in the Kubernetes Java client library where a compromised pod may be able to create new files in arbitrary locations on the client machine executing copy operations via non-tar copyDirectoryFromPod when enableTarCompressing is false.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 2.40 LOW
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): High
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Low
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

2.40

Severity 3.x

LOW

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://github.com/kubernetes-client/java/issues/4861