Medium
Security advisory
unzipper npm library before 0.8.13 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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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-1002203
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- 31 Oct 2026, 10:20 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
unzipper npm library before 0.8.13 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-2018-1002203
Complete source record
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