CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-2060
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-11-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• cabextract project cabextract (< 1.6)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151145.html Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151147.html Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.cabextract.org.uk/ Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:064 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/18/3 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/23/16 Mailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/23/24 Mailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151145.html Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151147.html Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.cabextract.org.uk/ Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:064 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/18/3 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/23/16 Mailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/23/24 Mailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory