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Status published
Medium
CVE-2015-0557
Open-source ARJ archiver 3.10.22 does not properly remove leading slashes...
Vulnerability Description
Open-source ARJ archiver 3.10.22 does not properly remove leading slashes from paths, which allows remote attackers to conduct absolute path traversal attacks and write to arbitrary files via multiple leading slashes in a path in an ARJ archive.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:201
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154605.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/05/9
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-15
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/03/5
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155011.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3213
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154518.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71895
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774435
Affected Vendor
arj software
View all reports →Affected Software
arj archiver, fedora
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 20, 21, 22
Timeline
Official Publish:
April 8th, 2015
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.