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CVE-2020-12265

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-04-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

The decompress package before 4.2.1 for Node.js is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Write via ../ in an archive member, when a symlink is used, because of Directory Traversal.

Affected products

• Decompress Project Decompress: before 4.2.1 — fixed in 4.2.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Decompress Project Decompress 4.2.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/kevva/decompress/issues/71
• https://github.com/kevva/decompress/pull/73
• https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1217
• https://github.com/kevva/decompress/issues/71
• https://github.com/kevva/decompress/pull/73
• https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1217

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