CVE-2014-9485

5.5 mediumEPSS 4.1%

Medium (5.5) in zlib-ng minizip-ng. EPSS 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the do_extract_currentfile function in miniunz.c in miniunzip in minizip before 1.1-5 might allow remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted entry in a ZIP archive.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium

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

EPSS: 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 90% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-22
Published: 2018-01-16
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

zlib-ng:minizip-ng

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/31/11
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/03/16
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/24/10
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71846
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774321

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