Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package zziplib  (opens in a new tab)


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1.54% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-ZZIPLIB-10078597
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed1 Oct 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-17828  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal. Directory traversal vulnerability in ZZIPlib 0.13.69 allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a zip file, because of the function unzzip_cat in the bins/unzzipcat-mem.c file.

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