CVE-2018-1002200
MEDIUM5.5EPSS 5.5%Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory in plexus-archiver
Published: 5/13/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
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'.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/plexus-archiverfrom 0, < 3.6.0-1
- Debian/plexus-archiverfrom 0, < 1.2-1+deb8u1
- Maven/org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-archiverfrom 0, < 3.6.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
References (11)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1002200
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-1002200
- PATCHhttps://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-archiver
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1836
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1837
- WEBhttps://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-archiver/commit/f8f4233508193b70df33759ae9dc6154d69c2ea8
- WEBhttps://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-archiver/pull/87
- WEBhttps://github.com/snyk/zip-slip-vulnerability
- WEBhttps://snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability
- WEBhttps://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGCODEHAUSPLEXUS-31680
- WEBhttps://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4227