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high 7.5

CVE-2016-6232 json

Directory traversal vulnerability in KArchive before 5.24, as used in KDE Frameworks, allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files v…

published 2016-08-02 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-7163

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.4%
EPSS 4.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Directory traversal vulnerability in KArchive before 5.24, as used in KDE Frameworks, allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in a filename in an archive file, related to KNewsstuff downloads.

Patch / fix

  • karchive Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.24.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6232

  • karchive Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 5.18.0-0ubuntu1.1
  • kde4libs Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 4:4.13.3-0ubuntu0.3
  • kde4libs Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6232

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • karchive Package Hub 12 SP1 5.20.0-6.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2016:1884-1openSUSE-SU-2016:2223-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-6232 updated cvss 5.5

kf5-karchive: Extraction of tar files possible to arbitrary system locations

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • kde.org https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20160724-1.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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