vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2015-2060): cabextract vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Nov 29, 2019
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Aug 19, 2025

Description

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.

Solution

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-cabextract
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