CVE-2020-12265

highpriority · track · 40EPSS 0.021 · 82 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

2.12% (82nd) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

3 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

The decompress package before 4.2.1 for Node.js is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Write via ../ in an archive member, when a symlink is used, because of Directory Traversal.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–9.8

v2.07.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 6.4

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.19criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-22USprimaryCWE-59USprimaryCWE-22USCWE-59US

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
decompress project decompress< 4.2.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:decompress_project:decompress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
npm decompress< 4.2.1osvUSpkg:npm/decompress

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-qgfr-5hqp-vrw9Path Traversal in decompress2020-09-03ghsa · osvUS
Versions of `decompress` prior to 4.2.1 are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Write. The package fails to prevent extraction of files with relative paths, allowing attackers to write to any folder in the system by including filenames containing`../`. ## Recommendation Upgrade to version 4.2.1 or later.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2020-04-26modified 2026-06-17

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references (11)

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