CVE-2014-9485

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-01-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the do_extract_currentfile function in miniunz.c in miniunzip in minizip before 1.1-5 might allow remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted entry in a ZIP archive.

Affected products

Zlib-Ng Minizip-Ng: through 1.1-4

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/31/11
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/03/16
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/24/10
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71846
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774321
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/31/11
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/03/16
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/24/10
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71846
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774321

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