# CVE-2026-12565: Path Traversal (Zip-Slip) in unarchive module

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-2392, GHSA-3VGW-585J-4M45
- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.8.5
- Published: 2026-06-17 · Updated: 2026-06-18

## Affected

- Black Lantern Security BBOT: from 2.3.1, through \<=2.8.4
- bbot (PyPI): from 2.3.1, fixed in 2.8.5

## Description

The unarchive internal module's archive extraction commands perform no code-level validation on extracted file paths, relying entirely on the behavior of external tools (e.g. GNU tar) which varies by platform. While CVE-2025-10284 addressed git-specific RCE vectors, the underlying archive extraction path traversal was never fixed. On systems with GNU tar < 1.34 (Ubuntu 20.04, Debian Buster, CentOS 7, many Docker base images), a malicious archive can write files outside the intended extraction directory.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Black Lantern Security BBOT, bbot, upgrade to a fixed version (2.8.5) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/blacklanternsecurity/bbot/commit/4fb38fd6e

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