CVE-2015-0552

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-01-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the gcab_folder_extract function in libgcab/gcab-folder.c in gcab 0.4 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via crafted path in a CAB file, as demonstrated by "\tmp\moo."

Affected products

GNOME Gcab: 0.4
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00018.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/62310
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/05/7
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774580
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742331
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00018.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/62310
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/05/7
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774580
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742331

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