GHSA-6fmv-xxpf-w3cw

Plexus-Utils has a Directory Traversal vulnerability in its extractFile method

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2025-67030

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Maven	org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils	>= 4.0.0, < 4.0.3	4.0.3
Maven	org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils	< 3.6.1	3.6.1

Details

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

Directory Traversal vulnerability in the extractFile method of org.codehaus.plexus.util.Expand in plexus-utils before 6d780b3378829318ba5c2d29547e0012d5b29642. This allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-67030 advisory
https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-utils/issues/294 web
https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-utils/pull/295 web
https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-utils/pull/296 web
https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-utils/commit/6d780b3378829318ba5c2d29547e0012d5b29642 web
https://gist.github.com/weaver4VD/3216dac645220f8c9b488362f61241ec web
https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-utils package
https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-utils/releases/tag/plexus-utils-4.0.3 web