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CVE-2018-17828

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5 EPSS 1.54% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-10-01 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

GitHub PoC Links

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CVE
CVE-2018-17828
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.5
EPSS
1.54%

Original NVD Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in ZZIPlib 0.13.69 allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a zip file, because of the function unzzip_cat in the bins/unzzipcat-mem.c file.

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