CVE-2020-36561 — Path traversal in github.com/yi-ge/unzip

Description

Due to improper path sanitization, archives containing relative file paths can cause files to be written (or overwritten) outside of the target directory.

How to fix CVE-2020-36561

To remediate CVE-2020-36561, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

Go/github.com/yi-ge/unzip—upgrade to 1.0.3-0.20200308084313-2adbaa4891b9 or later
—upgrade to 1.0.3-0.20200308084313-2adbaa4891b9 or later

Is CVE-2020-36561 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.6%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (2)

from 0, < 1.0.3-0.20200308084313-2adbaa4891b9
from 0, < 1.0.3-0.20200308084313-2adbaa4891b9

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL9.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

References (6)

ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36561
PATCHgithub.com/yi-ge/unzip
WEBgithub.com/yi-ge/unzip/commit/2adbaa4891b9690853ef10216189189f5ad7dc73
WEBgithub.com/yi-ge/unzip/pull/1
WEBpkg.go.dev