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Directory Traversal Affecting plexus-archiver package, versions <1.2-1+deb8u1build14.04.1

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
11.58% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-PLEXUSARCHIVER-270862
  • published27 Jun 2018
  • disclosed25 Jul 2018
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Introduced: 27 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-1002200  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:14.04 plexus-archiver to version 1.2-1+deb8u1build14.04.1 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 Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:14.04 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'.