CVE-2001-1270

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2001-07-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

Pkware Pkzip: through 4.00

References

http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/196445
http://www.security.nnov.ru/advisories/archdt.asp
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/196445
http://www.security.nnov.ru/advisories/archdt.asp

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