CVE-2018-1002205 is a directory traversal vulnerability, also known as 'Zip-Slip', affecting DotNetZip.Semvered versions prior to 1.11.0. An attacker can exploit this by crafting a malicious Zip archive containing entries with "../" sequences, leading to arbitrary file writes during extraction. With a CVSS score of 5.5 (MEDIUM), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L), but can result in high integrity impact (I:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available Metasploit or ExploitDB modules, though it has received minimal community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.11.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:dotnetzip.semverd_project:dotnetzip.semverd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
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