CVE-2018-10860 Path traversal in perl-archive-zip

What is CVE-2018-10860?

CVE-2018-10860 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 29 Jun 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

perl-archive-zip is vulnerable to a directory traversal in Archive::Zip. It was found that the Archive::Zip module did not properly sanitize paths while extracting zip files. An attacker able to provide a specially crafted archive for processing could use this flaw to write or overwrite arbitrary files in the context of the perl interpreter.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-10860?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Perl-Archive-Zip Project Perl-Archive-Zip.

How do I fix CVE-2018-10860?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2018-10860 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-10860 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10860, DLA-1440-1, DSA-4300-1, GHSA-46vh-339r-h4rg, MGASA-2018-0311, SUSE-SU-2018:2385-1 and 4 more.