CVE-2001-1269

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2001-07-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Info-ZIP UnZip 5.42 and earlier allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via filenames in the archive that begin with the '/' (slash) character.

Affected products

Info-ZIP UnZip: through 5.42

References

http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/196445
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-47800-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1000928.1-1
http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/UnZip.html
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/196445
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-47800-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1000928.1-1
http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/UnZip.html

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