CVE-2019-14452

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Summary

CVECVE-2019-14452
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-07-31 02:15:00 UTC
Updated2019-08-05 22:15:00 UTC
DescriptionSigil before 0.9.16 is vulnerable to a directory traversal, allowing attackers to write arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in a ZIP archive entry that is mishandled during extraction.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-22

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.04 All All All
Application Flightcrew Project Flightcrew All All All All
Application Flightcrew Project Flightcrew All All All All
Application Sigil-ebook Sigil All All All All
Application Sigil-ebook Sigil All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
further harden against malicious epubs and produce error message · Sigil-Ebook/Sigil@04e2f28 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Zip Slip in Sigil (CVE-2019-14452) – Mike Salvatore's Blog MISC salvatoresecurity.com
USN-4085-1: Sigil vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
harden plugin unzipping to zip-slip attacks · Sigil-Ebook/Sigil@0979ba8 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
do not allow zip files to have upward relative path sections · Sigil-Ebook/Sigil@369eebe · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Zip Slip Vulnerability in FlightCrew · Issue #52 · Sigil-Ebook/flightcrew · GitHub MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
Release Sigil-0.9.16 · Sigil-Ebook/Sigil · GitHub MISC github.com Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
Zip Slip Vulnerability in FlightCrew · Issue #52 · Sigil-Ebook/flightcrew · GitHub MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
Comparing ea7f27d...5b867e5 · Sigil-Ebook/Sigil · GitHub MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
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