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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2019-10743 json

Path Traversal in MHolt Archiver

published 2019-10-28 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-h74j-692g-48mq , EUVD-2021-1098

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.4%
EPSS 6.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

All versions of archiver allow attacker to perform a Zip Slip attack via the "unarchive" functions. It is exploited using a specially crafted zip archive, that holds path traversal filenames. When exploited, a filename in a malicious archive is concatenated to the target extraction directory, which results in the final path ending up outside of the target folder. For instance, a zip may hold a file with a "../../file.exe" location and thus break out of the target folder. If an executable or a configuration file is overwritten with a file containing malicious code, the problem can turn into an arbitrary code execution issue quite easily.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/mholt/archiver 3.3.2
  • archiver_project archiver 3.3.2

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-2019-10743 updated cvss 5.5

mholt/archiver: aribtrary file write via unsanitized destination filepaths

  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0 servicemesh, servicemesh-mixc, servicemesh-mixs, servicemesh-istioctl, servicemesh-pilot-agent, servicemesh-pilot-discovery Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 3 scanner
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 rhacm2/openshift-hive-rhel8, rhacm2/multiclusterhub-rhel8, rhacm2/multicloud-manager-rhel8, rhacm2/cluster-curator-controller-rhel8, rhacm2/clusterlifecycle-state-metrics-rhel8
    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

6.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • snyk.io https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMMHOLTARCHIVERCMDARC-174728 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/mholt/archiver
>=3.0.0, <3.3.2
3.3.2

Affected products

  • n/a archiver

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
  • CWE-29 Path Traversal: '\..\filename'

References

Sources

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