CVE-2026-43616

6.8 mediumEPSS 0.2%

Detect-It-Easy prior to 3.21 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows attackers to write arbitrary files to the filesystem by crafting malicious archive entries with relative traversal sequences or absolute paths. Attackers can exploit insufficient path normalization during archive extraction to write files outside the intended extraction directory and achieve persistent code execution by overwriting user startup scripts.

CVSS 4.0: 6.8CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS 3.1: 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 6% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-26)
CWE: CWE-23
Published: 2026-05-04
Modified: 2026-10-26
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-26

Affected

horsicq:detect-it-easy

References

https://github.com/horsicq/DIE-engine/commit/7fd300b926daf19707b2a36f0abe8b60a51308ee
https://github.com/horsicq/DIE-engine/commit/cbbe1688e58ffd430d284bf65f336973f083db69
https://github.com/horsicq/DIE-engine/releases/tag/3.21
https://github.com/horsicq/Detect-It-Easy
https://github.com/horsicq/Formats/commit/56cdf50ee3c72c56284e2819b23e98332842d259

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