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CVE-2026-56876

extract-zip unvalidated symlink path traversal

CVSS 8.6 HIGHEPSS 0.3%CWE-22CWE-61
Vexday Risk Score
21Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 8.6EPSS 0.3%KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch
Lifecycle
26 Jun 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
extract-zip does not validate symlink targets when extracting zip archives. When processing a malicious zip file containing a symlink with a relative path like '../../../../etc/passwd', extract-zip will extract the symlink without validation, allowing it to point outside the extraction directory. Depending on how extract-zip is used, an attacker could read or write to arbitrary files.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
max-mapper · extract-zip

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