Directory Traversal Affecting plexus-archiver package, versions <3.6.0-1
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- published10 Aug 2025
- disclosed25 Jul 2018
Introduced: 25 Jul 2018
CVE-2018-1002200 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:14 plexus-archiver to version 3.6.0-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream plexus-archiver package and not the plexus-archiver package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:14 relevant fixed versions and status.
plexus-archiver before 3.6.0 is vulnerable to directory traversal, allowing attackers to write to arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in an archive entry that is mishandled during extraction. This vulnerability is also known as 'Zip-Slip'.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-1002200
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4227
- https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-archiver/commit/f8f4233508193b70df33759ae9dc6154d69c2ea8
- https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-archiver/pull/87
- https://security.snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGCODEHAUSPLEXUS-31680
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1836
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1837
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-1002200
- https://github.com/snyk/zip-slip-vulnerability
- https://snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability