CVE-2019-10743: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
All versions of archiver allow attacker to perform a Zip Slip attack via the “unarchive” functions. It is exploited using a specially crafted zip archive, that holds path traversal filenames. When exploited, a filename in a malicious archive is concatenated to the target extraction directory, which results in the final path ending up outside of the target folder. For instance, a zip may hold a file with a “../../file.exe” location and thus break out of the target folder. If an executable or a configuration file is overwritten with a file containing malicious code, the problem can turn into an arbitrary code execution issue quite easily.
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