Medium
Security advisory
An Archive Extraction (AKA "Zip Slip) vulnerability exists in bbs 5.3 in the UpgradeNow function in UpgradeManageAction.java, which unzips the arbitrary upladed zip file without checking filenames. The vulnerability is exploited using a specially crafted archive that holds directory traversal filenames (e.g. ../../evil.exe).
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-43099
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:59 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An Archive Extraction (AKA "Zip Slip) vulnerability exists in bbs 5.3 in the UpgradeNow function in UpgradeManageAction.java, which unzips the arbitrary upladed zip file without checking filenames. The vulnerability is exploited using a specially crafted archive that holds directory traversal filenames (e.g. ../../evil.exe).
osv:CVE-2021-43099
Complete source record
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