Is CVE-2026-44885 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2026-44885 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2026-44885?

CVE-2026-44885 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5 (MEDIUM).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2026-44885?

CVE-2026-44885 has an EPSS score of 0.61% (45th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2026-44885?

Upgrade portainer to 2.33.8 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2026-44885

MEDIUM

5.5

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

Portainer Community Edition is a lightweight service delivery platform for containerized applications that can be used to manage Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes and ACI environments. From 2.33.0 to before 2.33.8, Portainer's backup restore feature accepts a .tar.gz archive and extracts it to a target directory on the server. The extraction function (ExtractTarGz in api/archive/targz.go) constructed output paths using filepath.Clean(filepath.Join(outputDirPath, header.Name)). This combination does not prevent directory traversal — a tar entry named ../../etc/cron.d/evil resolves to a path outside the extraction root, so a crafted archive can write files to arbitrary locations on the server filesystem. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.33.8.

CWE-22Path Traversal

How to fix

Remediation Available

portainerNVD

Affected:>= 2.33.0, < 2.33.8Fixed in:2.33.8CVE-2026-44885derived from NVD

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredHigh

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityNone

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityLow

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L

Exploit Intelligence

0.61%probability of exploitation in 30 days

45thpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 45% of all known CVEs.

References

Exploit1

github.com

Other references1

github.com

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-06-01.