CVE-2015-0557

medium

Published 2015-04-08 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.8

Description

Open-source ARJ archiver 3.10.22 does not properly remove leading slashes from paths, which allows remote attackers to conduct absolute path traversal attacks and write to arbitrary files via multiple leading slashes in a path in an ARJ archive.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`3.10.22-13`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`3.10.22-13`
debian	forky	fixed	`3.10.22-13`
debian	sid	fixed	`3.10.22-13`
debian	trixie	fixed	`3.10.22-13`
fedora	20	affected
fedora	21	affected
fedora	22	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
arj_software	arj_archiver	`{"endIncluding":"3.10.22"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.