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Absolute Path Traversal

CVE-2024-57966

Medium
5/10

Summary

libarchiveplugin.cpp in KDE ark before 24.12.0 can extract to an absolute path from an archive.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • LOW
  • CHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • LOW

CWE-36 - Absolute Path Traversal

The software uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize absolute path sequences such as "/abs/path" that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory.

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  • Published