CVE-2021-21706

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

In PHP versions 7.3.x below 7.3.31, 7.4.x below 7.4.24 and 8.0.x below 8.0.11, in Microsoft Windows environment, ZipArchive::extractTo may be tricked into writing a file outside target directory when extracting a ZIP file, thus potentially causing files to be created or overwritten, subject to OS permissions.

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-2021-21706

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed8.0.11-1
debian debianbullseyefixed0

References

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