VYPR
High severity8.1NVD Advisory· Published Jun 26, 2026· Updated Jul 6, 2026

CVE-2026-56876

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

5

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

3

News mentions

0

No linked articles in our index yet.