diff --git a/components/engine/AUTHORS b/components/engine/AUTHORS
index 014748e187..8f75ab85b3 100644
--- a/components/engine/AUTHORS
+++ b/components/engine/AUTHORS
@@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ Kimbro Staken <kstaken@kstaken.com>
 Kiran Gangadharan <kiran.daredevil@gmail.com>
 Konstantin Pelykh <kpelykh@zettaset.com>
 Kyle Conroy <kyle.j.conroy@gmail.com>
+Lajos Papp <lajos.papp@sequenceiq.com>
 Laurie Voss <github@seldo.com>
 Liang-Chi Hsieh <viirya@gmail.com>
 Lokesh Mandvekar <lsm5@redhat.com>
diff --git a/components/engine/pkg/symlink/fs.go b/components/engine/pkg/symlink/fs.go
index 4dcfdf360f..257491f91b 100644
--- a/components/engine/pkg/symlink/fs.go
+++ b/components/engine/pkg/symlink/fs.go
@@ -63,10 +63,9 @@ func FollowSymlinkInScope(link, root string) (string, error) {
 					return "", err
 				}
 
-				switch dest[0] {
-				case '/':
+				if path.IsAbs(dest) {
 					prev = filepath.Join(root, dest)
-				case '.':
+				} else {
 					prev, _ = filepath.Abs(prev)
 
 					if prev = filepath.Clean(filepath.Join(filepath.Dir(prev), dest)); len(prev) < len(root) {