CVE-2010-0831

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-06-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the extract_jar function in jartool.c in FastJar 0.98 allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a non-initial pathname component in a filename within a .jar archive, a related issue to CVE-2005-1080. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2006-3619.

Affected products

Matthias Klose Fastjar: 0.98

References

http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127602564508766&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127602731712034&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127603032617644&w=2
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/f/fastjar/fastjar_0.98-3/changelog
http://secunia.com/advisories/42892
http://secunia.com/advisories/50786
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-21.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:122
http://www.osvdb.org/65467
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0025.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41006
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1553

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