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CVE-2018-1002200

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory in plexus-archiver

Impact

plexus-archiver before 3.6.0 is vulnerable to directory traversal, allowing attackers to write to arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in an archive entry that is mishandled during extraction. This vulnerability is also known as 'Zip-Slip'.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
mavenorg.codehaus.plexus:plexus-archiver< 3.6.03.6.0

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
Codehaus-PlexusPlexus-Archiver
before 3.6.0
DebianDebian Linux
Versions 8.0, 9.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux
Version 7.5
RedhatEnterprise Linux Desktop
Version 7.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux Workstation
Version 7.0

Weakness classification

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