Vulnerability in Pkware Pkzip

CVE-2001-1270

Directory traversal vulnerability in the console version of PKZip (pkzipc) 4.00 and earlier allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction with the -rec (recursive) option via a .. (dot dot) attack on the archived files.

EPSS: 0.006 (44.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

References

  • cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, Patch)
  • cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)