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high 7.5

CVE-2016-7162 json

The _g_file_remove_directory function in file-utils.c in File Roller 3.5.4 through 3.20.2 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files…

published 2016-09-26 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-8030

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.3%
EPSS 3.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The _g_file_remove_directory function in file-utils.c in File Roller 3.5.4 through 3.20.2 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a folder in an archive.

Patch / fix

  • file-roller Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.20.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7162

  • file-roller Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 3.10.2.1-0ubuntu4.2
  • file-roller Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 3.16.5-0ubuntu1.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7162

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-7162 updated cvss 5.5

file-roller: Path traversal vulnerability when opening crafted archive

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 file-roller, file-roller-nautilus
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 file-roller Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 file-roller
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • bugzilla.gnome.org https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698554 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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