CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-32842
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-01-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- 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
SharpZipLib (or #ziplib) is a Zip, GZip, Tar and BZip2 library. Starting version 1.0.0 and prior to version 1.3.3, a check was added if the destination file is under a destination directory. However, it is not enforced that `_baseDirectory` ends with slash. If the _baseDirectory is not slash terminated like `/home/user/dir` it is possible to create a file with a name thats begins as the destination directory one level up from the directory, i.e. `/home/user/dir.sh`. Because of the file name and destination directory constraints, the arbitrary file creation impact is limited and depends on the use case. Version 1.3.3 fixed this vulnerability.
Affected configurations
• sharpziplib project sharpziplib (>= 1.0.0 < 1.3.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://github.com/icsharpcode/SharpZipLib/releases/tag/v1.3.3 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-125-sharpziplib/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/icsharpcode/SharpZipLib/releases/tag/v1.3.3 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-125-sharpziplib/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory