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Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2021-23521

This affects the package juce-framework/JUCE before 6.1.5. This vulnerability is triggered when a malicious archive is crafted with an entry containing a symbolic link. When extracted, the symbolic link is followed outside of the target dir allowing writing arbitrary files on the target host. In some cases, this can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. The vulnerable code is in the ZipFile::uncompressEntry function in juce_ZipFile.cpp and is executed when the archive is extracted upon calling uncompressTo() on a ZipFile object.

Products
juce
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
6.1.5~ds0-1
CVEs
CVE-2021-23521
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 01:41 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-23521

core-osv · Original source

Published 31 Jan 2022, 11:15 UTC

This affects the package juce-framework/JUCE before 6.1.5. This vulnerability is triggered when a malicious archive is crafted with an entry containing a symbolic link. When extracted, the symbolic link is followed outside of the target dir allowing writing arbitrary files on the target host. In some cases, this can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. The vulnerable code is in the ZipFile::uncompressEntry function in juce_ZipFile.cpp and is executed when the archive is extracted upon calling uncompressTo() on a ZipFile object.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2021-23521

juce

Fixed versions: 6.1.5~ds0-1

juce

Fixed versions: 6.1.5~ds0-1

juce

Fixed versions: 6.1.5~ds0-1

Complete source record
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