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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 27, 2026

Debian node-extract-zip: extract-zip does not validate symlink targets when extracting zip archives. When…

CVE-2026-56876

Description

extract-zip does not validate symlink targets when extracting zip archives. When processing a malicious zip file containing a symlink with a relative path like '../../../../etc/passwd', extract-zip will extract the symlink without validation, allowing it to point outside the extraction directory. Depending on how extract-zip is used, an attacker could read or write to arbitrary files.

Affected products

2

Patches

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