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CVE-2018-1002200

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 11.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-07-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

plexus-archiver before 3.6.0 is vulnerable to directory traversal, allowing attackers to write to arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in an archive entry that is mishandled during extraction. This vulnerability is also known as 'Zip-Slip'.

Affected products

• codehaus-plexus plexus-archiver: before 3.6.0 — fixed in 3.6.0
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 7.5
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: codehaus-plexus plexus-archiver 3.6.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1836
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1837
• https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-archiver/commit/f8f4233508193b70df33759ae9dc6154d69c2ea8
• https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-archiver/pull/87
• https://github.com/snyk/zip-slip-vulnerability
• https://snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGCODEHAUSPLEXUS-31680
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4227
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1836
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1837
• https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-archiver/commit/f8f4233508193b70df33759ae9dc6154d69c2ea8
• https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-archiver/pull/87

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