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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2022-44900): py7zr vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2022-44900): py7zr vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/06/2022
Created
09/26/2024
Added
09/25/2024
Modified
09/25/2024

Description

A directory traversal vulnerability in the SevenZipFile.extractall() function of the python library py7zr v0.20.0 and earlier allows attackers to write arbitrary files via extracting a crafted 7z file.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-python3-py7zr

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