CVE-2018-1002203: Path Traversal

July 25, 2018 (updated October 9, 2019)

unzipper npm library is vulnerable to directory traversal, allowing attackers to write to arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in a Zip archive entry that is mishandled during extraction. This vulnerability is also known as Zip-Slip.

References

github.com/ZJONSSON/node-unzipper/commit/2220ddd5b58f6252069a4f99f9475441ad0b50cd
github.com/ZJONSSON/node-unzipper/pull/59
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1002203
snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability
snyk.io/vuln/npm:unzipper:20180415

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