High severity7.2NVD Advisory· Published Nov 11, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-34422
CVE-2021-34422
Description
The Keybase Client for Windows before version 5.7.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability when checking the name of a file uploaded to a team folder. A malicious user could upload a file to a shared folder with a specially crafted file name which could allow a user to execute an application which was not intended on their host machine. If a malicious user leveraged this issue with the public folder sharing feature of the Keybase client, this could lead to remote code execution.
AI Insight
LLM-synthesized narrative grounded in this CVE's description and references.
Affected products
3- Range: <5.7.0
- Range: unspecified
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
1- explore.zoom.us/en/trust/security/security-bulletinnvdVendor Advisory
News mentions
0No linked articles in our index yet.