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Moderate severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 26, 2022· Updated Apr 22, 2025

Path Traversal in SharpZipLib

CVE-2021-32842

Description

SharpZipLib (or #ziplib) is a Zip, GZip, Tar and BZip2 library. Starting version 1.0.0 and prior to version 1.3.3, a check was added if the destination file is under a destination directory. However, it is not enforced that _baseDirectory ends with slash. If the _baseDirectory is not slash terminated like /home/user/dir it is possible to create a file with a name thats begins as the destination directory one level up from the directory, i.e. /home/user/dir.sh. Because of the file name and destination directory constraints, the arbitrary file creation impact is limited and depends on the use case. Version 1.3.3 fixed this vulnerability.

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
SharpZipLibNuGet
>= 1.0.0, < 1.3.31.3.3

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