CVE-2026-43616

Description

Detect-It-Easy prior to 3.21 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows attackers to write arbitrary files to the filesystem by crafting malicious archive entries with relative traversal sequences or absolute paths. Attackers can exploit insufficient path normalization during archive extraction to write files outside the intended extraction directory and achieve persistent code execution by overwriting user startup scripts.

References

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/detect-it-easy-path-traversal-arbitrary-file-write

https://github.com/horsicq/XArchive/commit/6a2aa84c2fd120b704f76bb5c5ee3e9b5a7a0fcc

https://github.com/horsicq/Formats/commit/56cdf50ee3c72c56284e2819b23e98332842d259

https://github.com/horsicq/Detect-It-Easy

https://github.com/horsicq/DIE-engine/releases/tag/3.21

https://github.com/horsicq/DIE-engine/commit/cbbe1688e58ffd430d284bf65f336973f083db69

https://github.com/horsicq/DIE-engine/commit/7fd300b926daf19707b2a36f0abe8b60a51308ee

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

CVSS v4