CVE-2026-43616
HIGH SEVERITYCVSS Score & Metrics
Base Score
7.1 / 10
Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Vulnerability Description
Detect-It-Easy prior to 3.21 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows attackers to write arbitrary files to the filesystem by crafting malicious archive entries with relative traversal sequences or absolute paths. Attackers can exploit insufficient path normalization during archive extraction to write files outside the intended extraction directory and achieve persistent code execution by overwriting user startup scripts.
Vulnerability Details
Published Date
Last Modified
CWE ID
CWE-23
Source
NVD
Vendor
horsicq
Product
DIE-engine
External References
- https://github.com/horsicq/DIE-engine/commit/7fd300b926daf19707b2a36f0abe8b60a51308ee
- https://github.com/horsicq/DIE-engine/commit/cbbe1688e58ffd430d284bf65f336973f083db69
- https://github.com/horsicq/DIE-engine/releases/tag/3.21
- https://github.com/horsicq/Detect-It-Easy
- https://github.com/horsicq/Formats/commit/56cdf50ee3c72c56284e2819b23e98332842d259
- https://github.com/horsicq/XArchive/commit/6a2aa84c2fd120b704f76bb5c5ee3e9b5a7a0fcc
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/detect-it-easy-path-traversal-arbitrary-file-write
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