Directory Traversal Affecting cabextract package, versions [,1.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.31% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CABEXTRACT-2384833
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Nov 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Nov 2019

CVE-2015-2060  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade cabextract to version 1.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal cabextract before 1.6 does not properly check for leading slashes when extracting files, which allows remote attackers to conduct absolute directory traversal attacks via a malformed UTF-8 character that is changed to a UTF-8 encoded slash.

References

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