Arbitrary File Write via Archive Extraction (Zip Slip) Affecting unzip-stream package, versions <0.3.2
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- published 27 Aug 2024
- disclosed 26 Aug 2024
- credit Justin Taft
How to fix?
Upgrade unzip-stream to version 0.3.2 or higher.
Overview
unzip-stream is a Process zip files using streaming API
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Write via Archive Extraction (Zip Slip) via the Extract() method, which allows .. in the pathname specified for the artifact to be unzipped.
Details
It is exploited using a specially crafted zip archive, that holds path traversal filenames. When exploited, a filename in a malicious archive is concatenated to the target extraction directory, which results in the final path ending up outside of the target folder. For instance, a zip may hold a file with a "../../file.exe" location and thus break out of the target folder. If an executable or a configuration file is overwritten with a file containing malicious code, the problem can turn into an arbitrary code execution issue quite easily.
The following is an example of a zip archive with one benign file and one malicious file. Extracting the malicous file will result in traversing out of the target folder, ending up in /root/.ssh/ overwriting the authorized_keys file:
+2018-04-15 22:04:29 ..... 19 19 good.txt
+2018-04-15 22:04:42 ..... 20 20 ../../../../../../root/.ssh/authorized_keys