Apache Commons Compress Path Traversal via Archive Extraction
CVE-2020-36561 Published on December 27, 2022

Path traversal in github.com/yi-ge/unzip
Due to improper path sanitization, archives containing relative file paths can cause files to be written (or overwritten) outside of the target directory.

NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2020-36561 can be exploited with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. Public availability of a proof of concept (POC) exploit exists for CVE-2020-36561. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality, a high impact on integrity and availability.

Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
NONE
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
NONE
Integrity Impact:
HIGH
Availability Impact:
HIGH

Products Associated with CVE-2020-36561

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Unzipproject Unzip
 
Apache Commons Compress
 

Affected Versions

github.com/yi-ge/unzip:

Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.61%
Percentile
69.43%

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