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Arbitrary File Write via Archive Extraction in mholt/archiver

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Feb 15, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 11, 2023

Package

gomod github.com/mholt/archiver (Go)

Affected versions

< 2.1.0

Patched versions

2.1.0

Description

mholt/archiver golang package before e4ef56d48eb029648b0e895bb0b6a393ef0829c3 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'.

References

Reviewed May 20, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Feb 15, 2022
Last updated Jan 11, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS score

0.131%
(49th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2018-1002207

GHSA ID

GHSA-5wmg-j84w-4jj4

Source code

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