Arbitrary File Write via Archive Extraction (Zip Slip) Affecting gluoncv package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.03% (8th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-GLUONCV-9680144
  • published9 Apr 2025
  • disclosed20 Mar 2025
  • creditPeng Zhou

Introduced: 20 Mar 2025

NewCVE-2024-12216  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-29  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for gluoncv.

Overview

gluoncv is a Gluon CV Toolkit

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Write via Archive Extraction (Zip Slip) via the from_csv() function in ImageClassificationDataset. An attacker can overwrite files on the victim's system by using this function to extract malicious tar files that exploit path traversal when extracted.

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

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1