CVE-2026-43616
Severity CVSS v4.0:
MEDIUM
Type:
CWE-23
Relative Path Traversal
Publication date:
04/05/2026
Last modified:
05/05/2026
Description
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.
Impact
Base Score 4.0
6.80
Severity 4.0
MEDIUM
Base Score 3.x
7.10
Severity 3.x
HIGH
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- 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
- https://github.com/horsicq/XArchive/commit/6a2aa84c2fd120b704f76bb5c5ee3e9b5a7a0fcc
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/detect-it-easy-path-traversal-arbitrary-file-write