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CVE-2018-1002201 json

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory in zt-zip

published 8y ago modified last mo. also GHSA-qcf3-9vmh-xw4r , EUVD-2022-4948

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
10.4%
EPSS 10.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

zt-zip before 1.13 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'.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.zeroturnaround:zt-zip 1.13
  • zeroturnaround zt-zip 1.13

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red hat product security vex CVE-2018-1002201 updated cvss 6.3

zt-zip: arbitrary file write vulnerability / arbitrary code execution using a specially crafted zip file

  • Red Hat BPM Suite 6 zt-zip zt-zip Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 zt-zip zt-zip
    affected: no fix available

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

10.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • snyk.io https://snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • snyk.io https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGZEROTURNAROUND-31681 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • github.com https://github.com/snyk/zip-slip-vulnerability referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.zeroturnaround:zt-zip
<1.13
1.13

Affected products

  • zeroturnaround zt-zip

Classification

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

References

Sources

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