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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.4

CVE-2018-10860 json

perl-archive-zip is vulnerable to a directory traversal in Archive::Zip.

published 2018-06-29 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-2927

cvss
5.4
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
42.2%
EPSS 42.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

perl-archive-zip is vulnerable to a directory traversal in Archive::Zip. It was found that the Archive::Zip module did not properly sanitize paths while extracting zip files. An attacker able to provide a specially crafted archive for processing could use this flaw to write or overwrite arbitrary files in the context of the perl interpreter.

Patch / fix

  • libarchive-zip-perl Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.62-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10860

  • libarchive-zip-perl Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.30-7ubuntu0.1
  • libarchive-zip-perl Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.56-2ubuntu0.1
  • libarchive-zip-perl Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 1.60-1ubuntu0.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10860

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

  • perl-Archive-Zip SLE Module for Basesystem 15 1.60-3.3.1
  • perl-Archive-Zip SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3, SLED 12 SP3 1.34-3.3.1
  • perl-Archive-Zip SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4 1.24-4.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:2386-1SUSE-SU-2018:2385-1SUSE-SU-2018:2388-1

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-2018-10860 updated cvss 5.4

perl-Archive-Zip: Directory traversal in Archive::Zip

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 perl-Archive-Zip Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perl-Archive-Zip Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perl-Archive-Zip
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Software Collections rh-perl520-perl-Archive-Tar, rh-perl524-perl-Archive-Tar, rh-perl526-perl-Archive-Tar
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perl-Archive-Zip Red Hat Software Collections rh-perl530-perl-Archive-Tar
    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

42.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 5.4 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • [UNKNOWN] perl-archive-zip

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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