Vulnerability in Black Lantern Security Bbot
CVE-2026-14966
BBOT's unarchive module rejects archives containing symlink entries before extraction, but for zip and 7z archives it failed to detect symlinks whose listing carries a DOS-attribute prefix before the unix mode, as produced by legacy versions of p7zip. Such an archive, downloaded and extracted during a scan (for example via filedownload), bypassed the guard and caused an attacker-controlled symlink to be written into the extraction directory. The effect is limited to planting the symlink (its target is not written through), and only hosts using such a legacy p7zip build are affected; current mainline 7-Zip is not.
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CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 3.1 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (30.3th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 30th percentile — 30.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Black Lantern Security Bbot — versions 2.3.1
- Blacklanternsecurity Bbot — versions 3.0.0.0, 3.0.0.1056, 3.0.0.1062
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2026-14966?
- CVE-2026-14966 is a low-severity vulnerability in Black Lantern Security Bbot, classified under Improper Link Resolution Before File Access. CVSS score: 3.1/10. Published 2026-07-08.
- How severe is CVE-2026-14966?
- Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.1 out of 10.