CVE-2010-0831
Directory traversal vulnerability in the extract_jar function in jartool.c in FastJar 0.98 allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a ..
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (3.68%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the extract_jar function in jartool.c in FastJar 0.98 allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a non-initial pathname component in a filename within a .jar archive, a related issue to CVE-2005-1080. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2006-3619.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.8 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
- EPSS
- 3.68% probability · 90th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-22
- Affected
- matthias klose/fastjar
- Source
- security@ubuntu.com
EPSS 3.7% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127602564508766&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127602731712034&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127603032617644&w=2
- http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/f/fastjar/fastjar_0.98-3/changelog
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42892
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50786
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-21.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:122
- http://www.osvdb.org/65467
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0025.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41006
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1553
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0121
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=594497
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=601823
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/540575Exploit
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127602564508766&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127602731712034&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127603032617644&w=2
- http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/f/fastjar/fastjar_0.98-3/changelog
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42892
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50786
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-21.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:122
- http://www.osvdb.org/65467
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0025.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41006
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1553
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0121
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=594497
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.