CVE-2015-2060

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

cabextract before 1.6 does not properly check for leading slashes when extracting files, which allows remote attackers to conduct absolute directory traversal attacks via a malformed UTF-8 character that is changed to a UTF-8 encoded slash.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-2060

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1.6-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.6-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.6-1
debian debiansidfixed1.6-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.6-1

References

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