malcontent is software for discovering supply-chain compromises through context, differential analysis, and YARA. Prior to version 1.21.0, malcontent would remove nested archives which failed to extract which could potentially leave malicious content. A better approach is to preserve these archives so that malcontent can attempt a best-effort scan of the archive bytes. Version 1.21.0 fixes the issue.
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| Description | malcontent is software for discovering supply-chain compromises through context, differential analysis, and YARA. Prior to version 1.21.0, malcontent would remove nested archives which failed to extract which could potentially leave malicious content. A better approach is to preserve these archives so that malcontent can attempt a best-effort scan of the archive bytes. Version 1.21.0 fixes the issue. | |
| Title | malcontent's nested archive extraction failure can drop content from scan inputs | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-703 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-02-27T21:28:06.258Z
Reserved: 2026-02-27T15:33:57.289Z
Link: CVE-2026-28407
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-02-27T22:16:23.680
Modified: 2026-02-27T22:16:23.680
Link: CVE-2026-28407
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