Directory Traversal Affecting py7zr package, versions <0.11.3+dfsg-5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.06% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-PY7ZR-5693419
  • published21 Feb 2023
  • disclosed6 Dec 2022

Introduced: 6 Dec 2022

CVE-2022-44900  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 py7zr to version 0.11.3+dfsg-5 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream py7zr package and not the py7zr package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

A directory traversal vulnerability in the SevenZipFile.extractall() function of the python library py7zr v0.20.0 and earlier allows attackers to write arbitrary files via extracting a crafted 7z file.

CVSS Scores

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