A flaw was found in assisted-migration-agent. An unauthenticated attacker, located on the same local area network (LAN), can exploit a path traversal vulnerability. By crafting a specially designed gzipped tarball, the attacker can bypass security checks and write arbitrary files to the system. This could ultimately lead to the execution of unauthorized code on the appliance.
History

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Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Kubev2v
Kubev2v assisted-migration-agent
Vendors & Products Kubev2v
Kubev2v assisted-migration-agent

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:15:00 +0000

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References
Metrics threat_severity

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threat_severity

Important


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Description A flaw was found in assisted-migration-agent. An unauthenticated attacker, located on the same local area network (LAN), can exploit a path traversal vulnerability. By crafting a specially designed gzipped tarball, the attacker can bypass security checks and write arbitrary files to the system. This could ultimately lead to the execution of unauthorized code on the appliance.
Title Assisted-migration-agent: vddk tarball chained-symlink arbitrary file write
Weaknesses CWE-59
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.6, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2026-06-10T13:55:44.144Z

Updated: 2026-06-10T14:44:30.838Z

Reserved: 2026-06-09T17:03:29.628Z

Link: CVE-2026-53476

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-06-10T15:16:42.220

Modified: 2026-06-10T19:24:04.320

Link: CVE-2026-53476

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2026-06-07T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2026-53476 - Bugzilla