CVE-2015-2060

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.

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/23/24

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/23/16

http://www.cabextract.org.uk/

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151147.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151145.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3