CVE-2015-2060 Information

Description

cabextract before 1.6 does not properly check for leading slashes when extracting files which allows remote attackers to conduct absolute directory traversal attacks via a malformed UTF-8 character that is changed to a UTF-8 encoded slash.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151145.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151147.html http://www.cabextract.org.uk/ http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:064 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/18/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/23/16 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/23/24

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

5.3