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Arbitrary File Write via Archive Extraction in mholt/archiver

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Feb 15, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 11, 2023

Package

gomod github.com/mholt/archiver (Go)

Affected versions

< 2.1.0

Patched versions

2.1.0

Description

mholt/archiver golang package before e4ef56d48eb029648b0e895bb0b6a393ef0829c3 is vulnerable to directory traversal, allowing attackers to write to arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in an archive entry that is mishandled during extraction. This vulnerability is also known as 'Zip-Slip'.

References

Reviewed May 20, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Feb 15, 2022
Last updated Jan 11, 2023

Severity

Moderate
5.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2018-1002207

GHSA ID

GHSA-5wmg-j84w-4jj4

Source code

Credits

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