GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-vwc7-r8mq-g2x9 adm-zip extraction follows destination symlinks, allowing arbitrary file overwrite

MEDIUM Published 2026-08-24 Modified 2026-09-08 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2026-76845
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
adm-zip
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-59
Reviewed
2026-09-08

Affected packages

• npm adm-zip: >= 0.5.9, <= 0.6.0 (no fix yet)

Description

adm-zip 0.5.9 through 0.6.0 follows symbolic links at the extraction destination. Utils.sanitize in util/utils.js enforces containment by comparing only the string form of an archive entry name against the resolved extraction root, and Utils.writeFileTo opens the computed destination with fs.openSync(path, "w", 0o666), which resolves symbolic links and carries neither O_NOFOLLOW nor a pre-write fs.lstatSync check. When a path component at the destination already exists as a symbolic link pointing outside the extraction root, extractAllTo, extractAllToAsync and extractEntryTo write the entry contents through that link and then chmod its target, placing attacker-controlled content in a file outside the root without any traversal sequence appearing in the archive. Reaching the write requires overwrite to be enabled, because the preceding fs.existsSync check also resolves the link and otherwise declines. An attacker able to create a symbolic link inside a shared, reused or predictable extraction directory, such as a temporary directory or a continuous integration workspace, can overwrite any file the extracting process is permitted to write.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2026-76845 adm-zip 0.5.9 through 0.6.0 follows symbolic links at the extraction destination. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References