CVE-2014-9485
Directory traversal vulnerability in the do_extract_currentfile function in miniunz.c in miniunzip in minizip before 1.1-5 might allow remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted entry
02 Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the do_extract_currentfile function in miniunz.c in miniunzip in minizip before 1.1-5 might allow remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted entry
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 4.08% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 90.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2018-01-16 00:00Z8 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 13:47Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2015-01-03
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 9a056927916c4b87a76140f7673a7717289ceca358a5f93fe451ec5cb5bc1713
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com71846http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71846
- bugs.debian.orghttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774321
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20141231 cve request: miniunzip directory traversalhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/31/11
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20150103 Re: cve request: miniunzip directory traversalhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/03/16
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20240124 Re: CVE-2023-45853: overflows in MiniZip in zlib through 1.3http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/24/10
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- minizip Fixed in 1.1-6
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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