# CVE-2021-32842: Path Traversal in SharpZipLib

- Also known as: GHSA-MM6G-MMQ6-53FF
- Severity: CVSS 4.0 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.3.3
- Published: 2022-01-26 · Updated: 2025-04-22

## Affected

- icsharpcode sharpziplib: from 1.3.3, fixed in 1.3.3; from 1.0.0
- SharpZipLib (NuGet): from 1.0.0, fixed in 1.3.3

## Description

SharpZipLib (or #ziplib) is a Zip, GZip, Tar and BZip2 library. Starting version 1.0.0 and prior to version 1.3.3, a check was added if the destination file is under a destination directory. However, it is not enforced that `_baseDirectory` ends with slash. If the _baseDirectory is not slash terminated like `/home/user/dir` it is possible to create a file with a name thats begins as the destination directory one level up from the directory, i.e. `/home/user/dir.sh`. Because of the file name and destination directory constraints, the arbitrary file creation impact is limited and depends on the use case. Version 1.3.3 fixed this vulnerability.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on icsharpcode sharpziplib, SharpZipLib, upgrade to a fixed version (1.3.3) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-125-sharpziplib/
- https://github.com/icsharpcode/SharpZipLib/releases/tag/v1.3.3

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