Medium
Security advisory
SharpZipLib before 1.0 RC1 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'.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-1002208
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:00 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
SharpZipLib before 1.0 RC1 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-2018-1002208
Complete source record
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