CVE-2015-2060

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-22 Path Traversal
Publication date:
29/11/2019
Last modified:
26/04/2021

Description

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.

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:cabextract_project:cabextract:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1.6 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*