Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jan 31, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-23521
CVE-2021-23521
Description
This affects the package juce-framework/JUCE before 6.1.5. This vulnerability is triggered when a malicious archive is crafted with an entry containing a symbolic link. When extracted, the symbolic link is followed outside of the target dir allowing writing arbitrary files on the target host. In some cases, this can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. The vulnerable code is in the ZipFile::uncompressEntry function in juce_ZipFile.cpp and is executed when the archive is extracted upon calling uncompressTo() on a ZipFile object.
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Affected products
2- juce-framework/JUCEdescription
- Range: <6.1.5
Patches
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References
2- github.com/juce-framework/JUCE/commit/2e874e80cba0152201aff6a4d0dc407997d10a7fnvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-UNMANAGED-JUCEFRAMEWORKJUCE-2388608nvdExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
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