Previously, 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.
Fix: https://github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent/pull/1383
Acknowledgements
malcontent thanks Oleh Konko from 1seal for discovering and reporting this issue.
1.21.0Exploitability
AV:NAC:LAT:NPR:NUI:NVulnerable System
VC:NVI:LVA:NSubsequent System
SC:NSI:NSA:N6.9/CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N