Path Traversal in Arj Software Archiver
CVE-2015-0557
Open-source ARJ archiver 3.10.22 does not properly remove leading slashes from paths, which allows remote attackers to conduct absolute path traversal attacks and write to arbitrary files via multiple leading slashes in a path in an ARJ archive.
Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.033 (88.2th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 88th percentile — 88.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.033 · newest: 0.033 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Arj Software Archiver
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 20, 21, 22
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154605.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/05/9 (mailing-list)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-15 (vendor-advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/03/5 (mailing-list)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155011.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3213 (vendor-advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154518.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/71895 (vdb-entry)
- bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi (Exploit)