CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-1269

2.1 LOW Published 2001-07-12 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-07-12
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

Info-ZIP UnZip 5.42 and earlier allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via filenames in the archive that begin with the '/' (slash) character.

Affected configurations

• info-zip unzip (<= 5.42)

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (2)

  • CWE-36 Absolute Path Traversal weakness
  • CWE-37 Path Traversal: '/absolute/pathname/here' weakness

References