CVSS 3.1
5.3 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NCVE-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 attacks via a malformed UTF-8 character that is changed to a UTF-8 encoded slash.
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 83% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-22
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- cabextract_project:cabextract
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151145.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151147.html
- http://www.cabextract.org.uk/
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:064
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/18/3