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CVE-2019-17582

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-02-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

A use-after-free in the _zip_dirent_read function of zip_dirent.c in libzip 1.2.0 allows attackers to have an unspecified impact by attempting to unzip a malformed ZIP archive. NOTE: the discoverer states "This use-after-free is triggered prior to the double free reported in CVE-2017-12858."

Affected products

• Libzip: 1.2.0

References

• https://github.com/nih-at/libzip/commit/2217022b7d1142738656d891e00b3d2d9179b796
• https://github.com/nih-at/libzip/issues/5
• https://libzip.org/libzip-discuss/
• https://github.com/nih-at/libzip/commit/2217022b7d1142738656d891e00b3d2d9179b796
• https://github.com/nih-at/libzip/issues/5
• https://libzip.org/libzip-discuss/

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