GHSA-qgfr-5hqp-vrw9CriticalCVSS 9.8

Path Traversal in decompress

Published
September 3, 2020
Last Modified
April 18, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2020-12265 →

📋 Description

Versions of decompress prior to 4.2.1 are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Write. The package fails to prevent extraction of files with relative paths, allowing attackers to write to any folder in the system by including filenames containing../.

Recommendation

Upgrade to version 4.2.1 or later.

🎯 Affected products1

  • npm/decompress:< 4.2.1

🔗 References (5)