CVE-2015-2060
mediumpriority · track · 22EPSS 0.023 · 83 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
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.
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affected products (2)
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references (22)
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- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151145.htmlcnnvd
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151147.htmlcnnvd
- http://www.cabextract.org.uk/cnnvd
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:064cnnvd
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/18/3cnnvd
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/23/16cnnvd
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/23/24cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2060cnnvd
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