{"id":"CVE-2018-17828","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-17828","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T01:50:30.783Z","title":"Directory traversal vulnerability in ZZIPlib 0.13.69 allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a ..","description":"Directory traversal vulnerability in ZZIPlib 0.13.69 allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a zip file, because of the function unzzip_cat in the bins/unzzipcat-mem.c file.","published":"2018-10-01T08:29:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-15T18:17:15.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-22"],"affected":["gdraheim/zziplib"],"epss":{"score":0.01538,"percentile":0.74742,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.54%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/gdraheim/zziplib/issues/62","tags":["Exploit","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/gdraheim/zziplib/issues/62","tags":["Exploit","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17828","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}