Directory Traversal Affecting yeraze/ytnef package, versions [0,2.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-YERAZEYTNEF-2367224
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 May 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 May 2021

CVE-2009-3721  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade yeraze/ytnef to version 2.8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal. Multiple directory traversal and buffer overflow vulnerabilities were discovered in yTNEF, and in Evolution's TNEF parser that is derived from yTNEF. A crafted email could cause these applications to write data in arbitrary locations on the filesystem, crash, or potentially execute arbitrary code when decoding attachments.

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