CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedCornac versions prior to 2.6.0 are vulnerable to a critical path traversal vulnerability that enables attackers to write arbitrary files outside the designated cache directory by exploiting crafted TAR archives. This flaw can be triggered via built-in dataset loaders, potentially allowing unauthorized file access or manipulation on the filesystem. Organizations using affected versions should prioritize patching this vulnerability to mitigate the risk of exploitation.
Public Exploit Signal
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Original NVD Description
Cornac before 2.6.0 contains a path traversal (Tar Slip) vulnerability that allows attackers to write arbitrary files outside the intended cache directory by supplying a crafted TAR archive containing ../ sequences, absolute paths, or symlink/hardlink entries to the _extract_archive() function in cornac/utils/download.py. Attackers can trigger this vulnerability through the built-in dataset loaders, which automatically download and extract archives, causing archive.extractall() to write files to arbitrary locations on the filesystem accessible to the running process.