CVE-2022-4510

Description

A path traversal vulnerability was identified in ReFirm Labs binwalk from version 2.1.2b through 2.3.3 included. By crafting a malicious PFS filesystem file, an attacker can get binwalk's PFS extractor to extract files at arbitrary locations when binwalk is run in extraction mode (-e option). Remote code execution can be achieved by building a PFS filesystem that, upon extraction, would extract a malicious binwalk module into the folder .config/binwalk/plugins. This vulnerability is associated with program files src/binwalk/plugins/unpfs.py. This issue affects binwalk from 2.1.2b through 2.3.3 included.

Predictions

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

Exploits

Exploit-DB

• EDB-51249 · remote · python

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4510
• https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk/pull/617
• https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/12/msg00022.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-07
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-4510