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CVE-2018-17828

Public on 2018-10-01
Modified on 2020-10-22
Description

It was discovered that zziplib is vulnerable to a directory traversal flaw in most of its unzip binaries, including unzip-mem, unzzipcat-mem, unzzipcat-big, unzzipcat-mix, and unzzipcat-zip. An attacker may use this flaw to write files outside the intended target directory, overwriting existing files, or creating new ones.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.5
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Core zziplib 2020-10-22 18:44 ALAS2-2020-1551

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 5.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N