# zip (crates.io) vulnerabilities

6 known vulnerabilities (1 critical, 4 high, 1 medium), with the versions each affects and the releases that fix them.

## At a glance

- Latest release: 9.4.2 (Nov 7, 2026): no advisory affects it
- Newest unaffected release: 9.4.2 (Nov 7, 2026), the latest release
- Weekly downloads: 7.5M
- Releases: 149 since 0.0.1 (Nov 21, 2014)
- Registry: https://crates.io/crates/zip
- Releases read: Nov 8, 2026

## Version timeline

Affected versions per advisory, in version order:

- CVE-2026-115909: 0.0.1 to 9.0.0-pre3 (9.0.0 is outside it)
- CVE-2026-115908: 7.2.0 to 9.0.0-pre3 (9.0.0 is outside it)
- CVE-2026-115907: 5.1.0 to 9.0.0-pre3 (9.0.0 is outside it)
- CVE-2026-115906: 0.6.0 to 9.0.0-pre3 (9.0.0 is outside it)
- CVE-2026-115905: 0.0.1 to 9.0.4 (9.0.5 is outside it)
- CVE-2025-29787: 1.3.0 to 2.2.3 (2.3.0 is outside it)

## Advisories (6)

### [CVE-2026-115909](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-115909): zip: Unbounded Symlink-Target Handling Can Abort Or Exhaust Memory During Extraction

- Severity: High 7.5
- Published: Oct 26, 2026
- Affected: from 1.3.0, fixed in 9.0.0; fixed in 9.0.0.
- Fixed in 9.0.0 (released Oct 9, 2026, 17 days before disclosure).
- The latest release, 9.4.2, is not affected.

### [CVE-2026-115908](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-115908): zip: Arbitrary file write outside the extraction directory, because ZipArchive::extract validates symlink targets lexically. (The defense against CVE-2025-29787 was broken in v7.2.0)

- Severity: High 7.4
- Published: Oct 26, 2026
- Affected: from 7.2.0, fixed in 9.0.0.
- Fixed in 9.0.0 (released Oct 9, 2026, 17 days before disclosure).
- The latest release, 9.4.2, is not affected.

### [CVE-2026-115907](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-115907): zip: legacy Shrink/Reduce/Implode decoder: denial of service from attacker-controlled ZIP64 uncompressed size

- Severity: High 7.5
- Published: Oct 26, 2026
- Affected: from 5.1.0, fixed in 9.0.0.
- Fixed in 9.0.0 (released Oct 9, 2026, 17 days before disclosure).
- The latest release, 9.4.2, is not affected.

### [CVE-2026-115906](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-115906): zip: AES Entry HMAC Authentication Bypass on Premature EOF

- Severity: Medium 6.5
- Published: Oct 26, 2026
- Affected: from 0.6.0, fixed in 9.0.0.
- Fixed in 9.0.0 (released Oct 9, 2026, 17 days before disclosure).
- The latest release, 9.4.2, is not affected.

### [CVE-2026-115905](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-115905): zip: Critical Parser Differential & Security Control Bypass via Dual-Header Inconsistencies (Zip Cloaking) Leading to Arbitrary File…

- Severity: Critical 10.0
- Published: Oct 26, 2026
- Affected: fixed in 9.0.5.
- Fixed in 9.0.5 (released Oct 17, 2026, 9 days before disclosure).
- The latest release, 9.4.2, is not affected.

### [CVE-2025-29787](https://cve.now/CVE-2025-29787): zip Vulnerable to Incorrect Path Canonicalization During Archive Extraction, Leading to Arbitrary File Write

- Severity: High 7.3
- Published: Mar 17, 2025
- Affected: from 1.3.0, fixed in 2.3.0.
- Fixed in 2.3.0 (released Mar 16, 2025, 1 day before disclosure).
- The latest release, 9.4.2, is not affected.

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