CVE-2015-2060

MediumCVSS 5.3/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.3/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-22

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151145.htmlIssue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151147.htmlIssue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.cabextract.org.uk/Vendor Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:064Broken Link
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/18/3Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/23/16Mailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/23/24Mailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151145.htmlIssue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151147.htmlIssue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.cabextract.org.uk/Vendor Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:064Broken Link
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/18/3Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/23/16Mailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/23/24Mailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Nov 29, 2019
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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