Published: 27/01/2005 Updated: 26/04/2021

CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 445

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Directory traversal vulnerability in cabextract prior to 1.1 allows remote malicious users to overwrite arbitrary files via a cabinet file containing .. (dot dot) sequences in a filename.

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cabextract project cabextract 0.2
cabextract project cabextract 0.6
cabextract project cabextract 1.0

The upstream developers discovered a problem in cabextract, a tool to extract cabinet files The program was able to overwrite files in upper directories This could lead an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 02-2b For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has b ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-574 http://secunia.com/advisories/12882/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11460 http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php#changes https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17766 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-574

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