What is CVE-2023-50255?

CVE-2023-50255 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Deepin Deepin-Compressor, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 9.3/10. Published 2023-12-27.

How severe is CVE-2023-50255?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.3 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Deepin Deepin-Compressor

CVE-2023-50255

Deepin-Compressor is the default archive manager of Deepin Linux OS. Prior to 5.12.21, there's a path traversal vulnerability in deepin-compressor that can be exploited to achieve Remote Command Execution on the target system upon opening crafted archives. Users are advised to update to version 5.12.21 which addresses the issue. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.011 (62.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.3 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Deepin Deepin-compressor
Linuxdeepin Developer-center — versions < 5.12.21

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
security-advisories@github.com (Patch, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-50255?: CVE-2023-50255 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Deepin Deepin-Compressor, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 9.3/10. Published 2023-12-27.
How severe is CVE-2023-50255?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.3 out of 10.