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CVE-2022-37865: Apache Ivy allows creating/overwriting any file on the system

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-11-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

With Apache Ivy 2.4.0 an optional packaging attribute has been introduced that allows artifacts to be unpacked on the fly if they used pack200 or zip packaging. For artifacts using the "zip", "jar" or "war" packaging Ivy prior to 2.5.1 doesn't verify the target path when extracting the archive. An archive containing absolute paths or paths that try to traverse "upwards" using ".." sequences can then write files to any location on the local fie system that the user executing Ivy has write access to. Ivy users of version 2.4.0 to 2.5.0 should upgrade to Ivy 2.5.1.

Affected products

• Apache Software Foundation Apache Ivy: from 2.4.0 before 2.5.1 — fixed in 2.5.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Apache Software Foundation Apache Ivy 2.5.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://lists.apache.org/thread/gqvvv7qsm2dfjg6xzsw1s2h08tbr0sdy
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YDIFDL5WSBEKBUVKTABUFDDD25SBNJLS/
• https://lists.apache.org/thread/gqvvv7qsm2dfjg6xzsw1s2h08tbr0sdy
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YDIFDL5WSBEKBUVKTABUFDDD25SBNJLS/

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