PT-2019-7173 · Cabextract · Cabextract

Alexander Cherepanov · Published 2015-02-26 · Updated 2021-04-26 · CVE-2015-2060

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions cabextract versions prior to 1.6

Description The issue allows remote attackers to conduct absolute directory traversal attacks via a malformed UTF-8 character that is changed to a UTF-8 encoded slash, due to improper checking for leading slashes when extracting files.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.6, update to version 1.6 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of cabextract to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-2060

MGASA-2015-0086

Affected Products

Cabextract

References · 18

• 🔥 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/18/3 · Exploit
• http://cabextract.org.uk · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-2060 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-2060 · Security Note
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151147.html · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2060 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2060 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0086.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0086 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151145.html · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2060 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-2060 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-2060 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/23/24 · Note
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:064 · Note