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CVE-2019-13241

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-07-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

FlightCrew v0.9.2 and older are vulnerable to a directory traversal, allowing attackers to write arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in a ZIP archive entry that is mishandled during extraction.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 18.10, 19.04
• Flightcrew Project Flightcrew: through 0.9.2

References

• https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/flightcrew/issues/52
• https://salvatoresecurity.com/fun-with-fuzzers-how-i-discovered-three-vulnerabilities-part-3-of-3/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4055-1/
• https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/flightcrew/issues/52
• https://salvatoresecurity.com/fun-with-fuzzers-how-i-discovered-three-vulnerabilities-part-3-of-3/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4055-1/

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