CVE-2018-10860

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 43.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-06-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

perl-archive-zip is vulnerable to a directory traversal in Archive::Zip. It was found that the Archive::Zip module did not properly sanitize paths while extracting zip files. An attacker able to provide a specially crafted archive for processing could use this flaw to write or overwrite arbitrary files in the context of the perl interpreter.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04
Debian Linux: 8.0
Perl-Archive-Zip Project Perl-Archive-Zip: all versions

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104580
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10860
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00032.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3703-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3703-2/
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4300
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104580
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10860
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00032.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3703-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3703-2/
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4300

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