CVE-2021-27919

Published: 11 March 2021

archive/zip in Go 1.16.x before 1.16.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) upon attempted use of the Reader.Open API for a ZIP archive in which ../ occurs at the beginning of any filename.

Notes

Packages built using golang need to be rebuilt once the
vulnerability has been fixed. This CVE entry does not
list packages that need rebuilding outside of the main
repository or the Ubuntu variants with PPA overlays.

Priority

Medium

CVSS 3 base score: 5.5

Status

References

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-27919
• https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/MfiLYjG-RAw
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian