CVE-2015-2060

medium

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.

References

Advisories
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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/23/24

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/23/16

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151147.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151145.html

http://www.cabextract.org.uk/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-11-29

Updated: 2021-04-26

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N