Path traversal in cabextract - CVE-2015-2060
Published: November 29, 2019 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32433
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-2060
CWE-ID: CWE-22
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to manipulate data.
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.
Affected software
cabextract
cabextract (Alpine package)
cabextract
Fedora
cabextract (Alpine package)
cabextract
Fedora
How to mitigate CVE-2015-2060
Install update from vendor's website.
cabextract - update to 1.6
cabextract (Alpine package) - update to 1.6-r0
cabextract - addressed in versions 1.5-1.el5, 1.5-1.el6, 1.5-1.el7, 1.5-1.fc21
cabextract (Alpine package) - update to 1.6-r0
cabextract - addressed in versions 1.5-1.el5, 1.5-1.el6, 1.5-1.el7, 1.5-1.fc21
External References
- 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