GHSA-m88m-crr9-jvqqMediumCVSS 5.5

OpenRefine vulnerable to zip slip in project import

Published
July 18, 2023
Last Modified
June 10, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2023-37476 →

📋 Description

Impact

A carefully crafted malicious OpenRefine project tar file can be used to trigger arbitrary code execution if a user can be convinced to import it.

Patches

The vulnerability exists in all versions of OpenRefine up to and including 3.7.3. Users should update to OpenRefine 3.7.4 as soon as possible.

Workarounds

Only import OpenRefine projects from trusted sources.

References

A similar issue existed in the Create Project feature (CVE-2018-19859), which was fixed by PR #1901.

🎯 Affected products1

  • maven/org.openrefine:main:< 3.7.4

🔗 References (6)