Live › vulnerability › CVE-2026-77156
Go to dashboardast-cli's tar extraction on Linux and macOS does not fully validate entry paths, so a crafted archive with absolute or traversal paths can write files outside the install directory. Exploitation requires an attacker to replace the archive served from download.checkmarx.com, after which arbitrary executable files can be written to arbitrary paths.
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First seen by InfraStack 2026-10-23 21:57 UTC. All times on this page are UTC.
Teams that install or run Checkmarx ast-cli on Linux or macOS, including when it installs the Vorpal ASCA real-time engine or SCA Resolver. Windows builds were not affected. Exposure depends on an attacker being able to substitute the archive served from download.checkmarx.com, so the risk is mainly about the integrity of that download source.
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ast-cli --version (exact affected version range unknown)Each row is the first time that source carried this signal. The analyst’s rows are its own findings.
Incomplete validation of extracted archive entry paths in ast-cli's tar extraction logic on Linux and macOS (used when installing the Vorpal ASCA real-time engine and the SCA Resolver) would allow a malicious tar archive containing absolute or traversal path entries to write files outside the install directory. Windows builds were not affected, as the Windows extractor performs this path validation.
Exploitation required substituting the archive served at "download.checkmarx.com". An attacker able to compromise that server and replace the archive could write arbitrary, executable files to arbitrary filesystem paths via this path traversal.
Extraction now validates that each entry's destination path resolves within the working directory and rejects absolute paths.
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