CVE-2015-0557

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-04-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Open-source ARJ archiver 3.10.22 does not properly remove leading slashes from paths, which allows remote attackers to conduct absolute path traversal attacks and write to arbitrary files via multiple leading slashes in a path in an ARJ archive.

Affected products

Arj Software Arj Archiver: through 3.10.22
Fedoraproject Fedora: 20, 21, 22

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154518.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154605.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155011.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3213
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:201
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/03/5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/05/9
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71895
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774435
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-15
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154518.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154605.html

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