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CVE-2020-36561

Due to improper path sanitization, archives containing relative file paths can cause files to be written (or overwritten) outside of the target directory.

Published: Dec 27, 2022
Updated: Jun 9, 2023
CVE: CVE-2020-36561
GHSA: GHSA-f5c5-hmw9-v8hx
Severity: Critical
Exploit:

CVSS v3:

Severity: Critical
Score: 9.1
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

CWEs:

CWE-22

OWASP TOP 10:

A5 - Broken Access Control

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
unzip_project / unzip	-	1.0.3-0.20200308084313-2adbaa4891b9
github.com/yi-ge/unzip	-	1.0.3-0.20200308084313-2adbaa4891b9

https://github.com/yi-ge/unzip/commit/2adbaa4891b9690853ef10216189189f5ad7dc73
https://github.com/yi-ge/unzip/pull/1
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2020-0035
https://snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability

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