GHSA-hcxq-x77q-3469

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory in plexus-archiver

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2018-1002200

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Maven	org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-archiver	< 3.6.0	3.6.0

Details

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

plexus-archiver before 3.6.0 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-2018-1002200 advisory
https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-archiver/pull/87 web
https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-archiver/commit/f8f4233508193b70df33759ae9dc6154d69c2ea8 web
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1836 web
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1837 web
https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-archiver package
https://github.com/snyk/zip-slip-vulnerability web
https://snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability web
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGCODEHAUSPLEXUS-31680 web
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4227 web