CVE-2018-18586 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2018-18586

chmextract.c in the chmextract sample program, as distributed with libmspack...

Vulnerability Description

chmextract.c in the chmextract sample program, as distributed with libmspack before 0.8alpha, does not protect against absolute/relative pathnames in CHM files, leading to Directory Traversal. NOTE: the vendor disputes that this is a libmspack vulnerability, because chmextract.c was only intended as a source-code example, not a supported application

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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CVE-2018-18585
chmd_read_headers in mspack/chmd.c in libmspack before 0.8alpha accepts a filename...
Medium 4.3

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

libmspack
Vulnerable Versions:
0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7

Timeline

Official Publish: October 23rd, 2018
Last Modified: August 5th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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