GHSA-5458-7hh9-v7p4

pf4j is vulnerable to Path Traversal or Zip Slip attack through improper handling of zip entry names

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2025-70952

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Maven	org.pf4j:pf4j	< 3.14.1	3.14.1

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

pf4j before 20c2f80 has a path traversal vulnerability in the extract() function of Unzip.java, where improper handling of zip entry names can allow directory traversal or Zip Slip attacks, due to a lack of proper path normalization and validation.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-70952 advisory
https://github.com/pf4j/pf4j/issues/618 web
https://github.com/pf4j/pf4j/issues/623 web
https://github.com/pf4j/pf4j/commit/20c2f80089d1ea779e22c2de5f109a0bce4e1b14 web
https://gist.github.com/weaver4VD/410f23adb24ef5f5077f021f4393e705 web
https://github.com/pf4j/pf4j package