PT-2018-4304 · Minizip · Minigzip

Jakub Wilk · Published 2018-01-16 · Updated 2024-01-30 · CVE-2014-9485

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions minizip versions prior to 1.1-5

Description The issue is related to a directory traversal vulnerability in the do extract currentfile function in miniunz.c in miniunzip. This vulnerability might allow remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted entry in a ZIP archive.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.1-5, update to version 1.1-5 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of the do extract currentfile function in miniunz.c until a patch is available. Avoid using miniunzip to extract ZIP archives from untrusted sources until the issue is resolved.

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-9485

MGASA-2024-0019

Affected Products

Minigzip

References · 17

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9485 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9485 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9485 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2024-0019.html · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9485 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9485 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2024-0019 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-9485 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9485 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/31/11 · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32785 · Note
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774321 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/03/16 · Note
• https://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/24/10 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/68595 · Telegram Post