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CVE-2004-0916

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-01-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in cabextract before 1.1 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a cabinet file containing .. (dot dot) sequences in a filename.

Affected products

• Cabextract Project Cabextract: 0.2, 0.6, 1.0

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/12882/
• http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-574
• http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php#changes
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11460
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17766
• http://secunia.com/advisories/12882/
• http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-574
• http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php#changes
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11460
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17766

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