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CVE-2019-16511

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-09-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

An issue was discovered in DTF in FireGiant WiX Toolset before 3.11.2. Microsoft.Deployment.Compression.Cab.dll and Microsoft.Deployment.Compression.Zip.dll allow directory traversal during CAB or ZIP archive extraction, because the full name of an archive file (even with a ../ sequence) is concatenated with the destination path.

Affected products

• Firegiant Wix Toolset: before 3.11.2 — fixed in 3.11.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Firegiant Wix Toolset 3.11.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/GitHubAssessments/CVE_Assessments_09_2019
• https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issues/6075
• https://wixtoolset.org/development/wips/6075-dtf-zip-slip/
• https://www.firegiant.com/blog/2019/9/18/wix-v3.11.2-released/
• https://github.com/GitHubAssessments/CVE_Assessments_09_2019
• https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issues/6075
• https://wixtoolset.org/development/wips/6075-dtf-zip-slip/
• https://www.firegiant.com/blog/2019/9/18/wix-v3.11.2-released/

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