CVE-2018-1002200

Publication date 25 July 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

plexus-archiver before 3.6.0 is vulnerable to directory traversal, allowing attackers to write to arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in an archive entry that is mishandled during extraction. This vulnerability is also known as 'Zip-Slip'.

From the Ubuntu Security Team

It was discovered that plexus-archiver incorectly handled directory traversal during extraction. An attacker could possibly use this for a Zip-Slip attack.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
plexus-archiver	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Not affected
	21.04 hirsute	Not affected
	20.10 groovy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Not affected
	19.04 disco	Not affected
	18.10 cosmic	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 3.5-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.2-1+deb9u1build0.16.04.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.2-1+deb8u1build14.04.1

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
plexus-archiver	Other: 58bc24e

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-4832-1
Plexus Archiver vulnerability
15 March 2021