CVE-2018-17828

Public on 2018-10-01
Modified on 2020-10-22
Description
It was discovered that zziplib is vulnerable to a directory traversal flaw in most of its unzip binaries, including unzip-mem, unzzipcat-mem, unzzipcat-big, unzzipcat-mix, and unzzipcat-zip. An attacker may use this flaw to write files outside the intended target directory, overwriting existing files, or creating new ones.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.5
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 2 - Core zziplib 2020-10-22 ALAS2-2020-1551 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 5.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N