GHSA-5wmg-j84w-4jj4

Arbitrary File Write via Archive Extraction in mholt/archiver

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2018-1002207

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Go	github.com/mholt/archiver	< 2.1.0	2.1.0

Details

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

mholt/archiver golang package before e4ef56d48eb029648b0e895bb0b6a393ef0829c3 is vulnerable to directory traversal, allowing attackers to write to arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in an archive entry that is mishandled during extraction. This vulnerability is also known as 'Zip-Slip'.

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1002207 advisory
https://github.com/mholt/archiver/pull/65 web
https://github.com/mholt/archiver/commit/e4ef56d48eb029648b0e895bb0b6a393ef0829c3 web
https://github.com/mholt/archiver package
https://github.com/snyk/zip-slip-vulnerability web
https://snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability web
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMMHOLTARCHIVERCMDARCHIVER-50071 web