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CVE-2018-1002209

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-07-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

QuaZIP before 0.7.6 is vulnerable to directory traversal, allowing attackers to write to arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in a Zip archive entry that is mishandled during extraction. This vulnerability is also known as 'Zip-Slip'.

Affected products

• quazip: before 0.7.6 — fixed in 0.7.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: quazip 0.7.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/snyk/zip-slip-vulnerability
• https://github.com/stachenov/quazip/blob/0.7.6/NEWS.txt
• https://github.com/stachenov/quazip/commit/5d2fc16a1976e5bf78d2927b012f67a2ae047a98
• https://snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability
• https://github.com/snyk/zip-slip-vulnerability
• https://github.com/stachenov/quazip/blob/0.7.6/NEWS.txt
• https://github.com/stachenov/quazip/commit/5d2fc16a1976e5bf78d2927b012f67a2ae047a98
• https://snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability

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