CVE-2026-54250

Summary

K3s is a fully conformant production-ready Kubernetes distribution. Prior to 1.35.3+k3s1, 1.34.6+k3s1, v1.33.10+k3s1, a path traversal vulnerability exists in K3s's etcd snapshot decompression functionality. Zip files containing archive members with maliciously crafted names can be written to arbitrary locations on the filesystem when an administrator restores the archive as a compressed etcd snapshot. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.35.3+k3s1, 1.34.6+k3s1, v1.33.10+k3s1.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
k3s-iok3s>= 1.35.0-rc1+k3s1, < 1.35.3+k3s1affected
k3s-iok3s>= 1.34.0-rc1+k3s1, < 1.34.6+k3s1affected
k3s-iok3s< 1.33.10+k3s1affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-22: CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References