CVE-2024-57966

Published: Feb 3, 2025Modified: Jun 17, 2026Deferred

5.0

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L

Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 2.7

Source: MITRE (Secondary)

Description

libarchiveplugin.cpp in KDE ark before 24.12.0 can extract to an absolute path from an archive.

Related CWEs

Absolute Path Traversal

The product uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize absolute path sequences such as "/abs/path" that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory.

References (3)

https://github.com/KDE/ark/commit/fe518d81b338941e0bf1c5ce5e75a9ab6de4bb58

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://github.com/KDE/ark/compare/v24.11.90...v24.12.0

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/02/msg00007.html

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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