High (7.8). EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
zutils version prior to version 1.8-pre2 contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in zcat that can result in Potential denial of service or arbitrary code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim openning a crafted compressed file. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.8-pre2.
Severity
CVSS 3.0
7.8 high
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 76% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)