Directory Traversal Affecting cabextract package, versions [,1.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.59% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CABEXTRACT-2384829
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Jan 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Jan 2005

CVE-2004-0916  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade cabextract to version 1.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal. Directory traversal vulnerability in cabextract before 1.1 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a cabinet file containing .. (dot dot) sequences in a filename.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1