CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-41072

8.1 HIGH Published 2021-09-14 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-09-14
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-22, CWE-59

Description

squashfs_opendir in unsquash-2.c in Squashfs-Tools 4.5 allows Directory Traversal, a different vulnerability than CVE-2021-40153. A squashfs filesystem that has been crafted to include a symbolic link and then contents under the same filename in a filesystem can cause unsquashfs to first create the symbolic link pointing outside the expected directory, and then the subsequent write operation will cause the unsquashfs process to write through the symbolic link elsewhere in the filesystem.

Affected configurations

• squashfs-tools project squashfs-tools 4.5 • debian debian linux 9.0 • debian debian linux 10.0 • debian debian linux 11.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References