CVE-2015-2060 (GCVE-0-2015-2060)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-11-29 20:55 – Updated: 2024-08-06 05:02
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
cabextract before 1.6 does not properly check for leading slashes when extracting files, which allows remote attackers to conduct absolute directory traversal attacks via a malformed UTF-8 character that is changed to a UTF-8 encoded slash.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
7 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/18/3 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/0… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/0… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.cabextract.org.uk/ | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… | x_refsource_MISC |
Date Public
2015-02-18 00:00
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- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
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vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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