CVE-2006-2520

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-05-22 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in BitZipper 4.1.2 SR-1 and earlier allows remote attackers to create files in arbitrary directories via a .. (dot dot) in the filename of a file that is stored in a (1) RAR (.rar), (2) TAR (.tar), (3) ZIP (.zip), (4) GZ (.gz), or (5) JAR (.jar) archive.

Affected products

Bitberry Software Bitzipper: 3.2, 3.2.1, 3.3, 3.4, 3.4.1, 4.0 (+3)

References

http://hamid.ir/security/bitzipper.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/20207
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016132
http://www.osvdb.org/25693
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434713/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18065
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1907
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26626
http://hamid.ir/security/bitzipper.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/20207
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016132
http://www.osvdb.org/25693

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