High
Security advisory
Sigil before 0.9.16 is vulnerable to a directory traversal, allowing attackers to write arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in a ZIP archive entry that is mishandled during extraction.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-14452
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:36 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Sigil before 0.9.16 is vulnerable to a directory traversal, allowing attackers to write arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in a ZIP archive entry that is mishandled during extraction.
osv:CVE-2019-14452
Complete source record
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