PT-2026-35536 · Ospg · Binwalk

Dhabaleshwar · Published 2026-04-27 · Updated 2026-04-28 · CVE-2026-7179

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OSPG binwalk versions prior to 3

Description A path traversal issue exists in the WinCE Extraction Plugin within the read null terminated string() function of the src/binwalk/plugins/winceextract.py file. A local attacker can manipulate the self.file name variable to perform this attack.

Recommendations Migrate to binwalk v3.

Exploit

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-7179

Affected Products

Binwalk

References · 11

• 🔥 https://github.com/dhabaleshwar/Open-Source-Vulnerabilities/blob/main/binwalk_path_traversal.md · Exploit
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-7179 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-7179 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-7179 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-7179 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-7179 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-7179 · Vendor Advisory
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/2048910087188820210 · Twitter Post
• https://vuldb.com/vuln/359781 · Note
• https://vuldb.com/vuln/359781/cti · Note
• https://vuldb.com/submit/802228 · Note