CVE-2011-2725

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-02-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Ark 4.7.x and earlier allows remote attackers to delete and force the display of arbitrary files via .. (dot dot) sequences in a zip file.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 10.10, 11.04, 11.10
KDE ark: through 2.17
Kde Sc: through 4.7.4; 4.7.0, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.7.3
Opensuse: 11.4

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-03/msg00002.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/105610/Ark-2.16-Directory-Traversal.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Oct/351
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1276-1
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708268
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725764
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-03/msg00002.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/105610/Ark-2.16-Directory-Traversal.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Oct/351
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1276-1
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708268
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725764

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