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VMwareCVE-2026-41861

VMware BOSH: path traversal

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CVE-2026-41861 · Published Aug 6, 2026 · updated Aug 18, 2026

Medium4.2
Fix: upgrade to 2.847.0 or later
VMware advisory

Path Traversal in BOSH-Ecosystem / BOSH allows an IaaS-metadata attacker to make the agent write a root-owned file with partially attacker-controlled body to any path ending in .network, and create any missing parent directories with mode 0777 via network Alias on Ubuntu.

Affected versions: BOSH agent < v2.847.0 (jammy <= v1.1202, or noble <= v1.364). Lower bound unspecified in advisory ("All bosh agent versions").

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
BOSH
Product
< 2.847.02.847.0
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