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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-1002206

SharpCompress before 0.21.0 is vulnerable to directory traversal, allowing attackers to write to arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in a Zip archive entry that is mishandled during extraction. This vulnerability is also known as 'Zip-Slip'.

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31 Oct 2026, 10:26 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2018-1002206

core-osv · Original source

Published 25 Jul 2018, 17:29 UTC

SharpCompress before 0.21.0 is vulnerable to directory traversal, allowing attackers to write to arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in a Zip archive entry that is mishandled during extraction. This vulnerability is also known as 'Zip-Slip'.

osv:CVE-2018-1002206
Complete source record
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  "published_at": "2018-07-25T17:29:01.94+00:00"
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