CVE-2018-1261: pivotal spring integration zip Path Traversal

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2018-1261 is a medium (CVSS 4.7) Path Traversal vulnerability in pivotal spring integration zip. EPSS estimates a 1.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 68.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 11-05-2018
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 17-09-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Spring-integration-zip versions prior to 1.0.1 exposes an arbitrary file write vulnerability, which can be achieved using a specially crafted zip archive (affects other archives as well, bzip2, tar, xz, war, cpio, 7z) that holds path traversal filenames. So when the filename gets concatenated to the target extraction directory, the final path ends up outside of the target folder.

• CWE-22Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory.