# CVE-2019-10743: All versions of archiver allow attacker to perform a Zip Slip attack via the "unarchive" functions.

- Also known as: GHSA-H74J-692G-48MQ
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Fixed in: 3.3.2
- Published: 2019-10-28 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a archiver: all versions
- github.com/mholt/archiver (Go): from 3.0.0, fixed in 3.3.2

## Description

All versions of archiver allow attacker to perform a Zip Slip attack via the "unarchive" functions. It is exploited using a specially crafted zip archive, that holds path traversal filenames. When exploited, a filename in a malicious archive is concatenated to the target extraction directory, which results in the final path ending up outside of the target folder. For instance, a zip may hold a file with a "../../file.exe" location and thus break out of the target folder. If an executable or a configuration file is overwritten with a file containing malicious code, the problem can turn into an arbitrary code execution issue quite easily.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a archiver, github.com/mholt/archiver, upgrade to a fixed version (3.3.2) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMMHOLTARCHIVERCMDARC-174728%2C
- https://github.com/mholt/archiver/pull/169
- https://github.com/albisorua/PoC-CVE-2019-10743

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