CVE-2015-2060: cabextract before 1.6 does not properly check for leading slashes when extracting files, which allows remote attackers to conduct absolute directory traversal…

PriorityP431medium5.3CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRNUINSUCNILAN

EPSS

2.31%

81.4th percentile

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.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
cabextract_project	cabextract	< 1.6	1.6
cabextract_project	cabextract	>= 0 < 1.6-1	1.6-1
cabextract_project	cabextract	>= 0 < 1.6-1	1.6-1
cabextract_project	cabextract	>= 0 < 1.6-1	1.6-1
cabextract_project	cabextract	>= 0 < 1.6-1	1.6-1
debian	cabextract	< cabextract 1.6-1 (bookworm)	cabextract 1.6-1 (bookworm)

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.3MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

osv5.3MEDIUM

vendor_debian5.3MEDIUM

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