VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2001-1270

CVSS score2.1 LOW

EPSS probability0.58%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published2001-07-12

Last modified2026-06-16

CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the console version of PKZip (pkzipc) 4.00 and earlier allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction with the -rec (recursive) option via a .. (dot dot) attack on the archived files.

Primary references

cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Vendor Advisory