Security advisory

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  "id": "1af83c4862878a4d6134d04c6b25fddc82c622778802028fd8142d5bfc1e02f9",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-12265",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-12265",
    "summary": "The decompress package before 4.2.1 for Node.js is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Write via ../ in an archive member, when a symlink is used, because of Directory Traversal.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-12265",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2020-12265",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2020-12265",
        "GHSA-qgfr-5hqp-vrw9"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/kevva/decompress",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "84a8c1046946add1a6ae01c54dbebf312e4ffc85"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:decompress_project:decompress:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "4.2.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v4.2.0",
            "v4.1.0",
            "v4.0.0",
            "v3.0.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-12265.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:51:46.352688371Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1217",
        "https://github.com/kevva/decompress/pull/73",
        "https://github.com/kevva/decompress/issues/71"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2020-12265",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 382919,
  "published_at": "2020-04-26T17:15:11.15+00:00"
}