VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2026-43616

CVSS score7.1 HIGH
EPSS probability0.17%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-05-04
Last modified2026-10-26
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Description

Detect-It-Easy prior to 3.21 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows attackers to write arbitrary files to the filesystem by crafting malicious archive entries with relative traversal sequences or absolute paths. Attackers can exploit insufficient path normalization during archive extraction to write files outside the intended extraction directory and achieve persistent code execution by overwriting user startup scripts.

Weakness classification

  • disclosure@vulncheck.com: CWE-23

Primary references