Directory Traversal Vulnerability in perl-archive-zip's Archive::Zip Module

CVE-2018-10860 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

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.

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