CVE catalog
CVE-2018-17828
zziplib: CVE-2018-17828
- Severity
- Medium · CVSS 5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N - Published
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 1.54% · Oct 27, 2026
Directory traversal vulnerability in ZZIPlib 0.13.69 allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a zip file, because of the function unzzip_cat in the bins/unzzipcat-mem.c file.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | zziplib | sid | 0.13.78+dfsg.1-0.2 | vulnerable |
| Debian | zziplib | forky | 0.13.78+dfsg.1-0.2 | vulnerable |
| Debian | zziplib | trixie | 0.13.78+dfsg.1-0.1 | vulnerable |
| Debian | zziplib | bookworm | 0.13.72+dfsg.1-1.1 | vulnerable |
| Cpe | zziplib | Not reported | Not reported | unknown |
| Suse | zziplib | linux enterprise desktop 12 sp3 | 0.13.67-10.14.1 | fixed |
| Suse | zziplib | linux enterprise software development kit 12 sp3 | 0.13.67-10.14.1 | fixed |
| Suse | zziplib | linux enterprise workstation extension 12 sp3 | 0.13.67-10.14.1 | fixed |
| Suse | zziplib | linux enterprise module for basesystem 15 | 0.13.69-3.3.1 | fixed |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | zziplib | source | sid | (unfixed) | unimportant | Not reported | Not reported |
| Debian | zziplib | source | forky | (unfixed) | unimportant | Not reported | Not reported |
| Debian | zziplib | source | trixie | (unfixed) | unimportant | Not reported | Not reported |
| Debian | zziplib | source | bookworm | (unfixed) | unimportant | Not reported | Not reported |
| Suse | zziplib | rpm | linux enterprise desktop 12 sp3 | 0.13.67-10.14.1 | Not reported | SUSE-SU-2018:3379-1 | Not reported |
| Suse | zziplib | rpm | linux enterprise software development kit 12 sp3 | 0.13.67-10.14.1 | Not reported | SUSE-SU-2018:3379-1 | Not reported |
| Suse | zziplib | rpm | linux enterprise workstation extension 12 sp3 | 0.13.67-10.14.1 | Not reported | SUSE-SU-2018:3379-1 | Not reported |
| Suse | zziplib | rpm | linux enterprise module for basesystem 15 | 0.13.69-3.3.1 | Not reported | SUSE-SU-2018:3220-1 | Not reported |
OpenFactory catalog packages
[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]
- [libzzip-0-13]Affected
Source package: [zziplib]
Details (2)
0.13.72+dfsg.1-1.1· amd64 · bookwormAffected
dsa · zziplib · debian · bookworm
0.13.72+dfsg.1-1.1· arm64 · bookwormAffected
dsa · zziplib · debian · bookworm
- [libzzip-dev]Affected
Source package: [zziplib]
Details (2)
0.13.72+dfsg.1-1.1· amd64 · bookwormAffected
dsa · zziplib · debian · bookworm
0.13.72+dfsg.1-1.1· arm64 · bookwormAffected
dsa · zziplib · debian · bookworm
- [zziplib-bin]Affected
Source package: [zziplib]
Details (2)
0.13.72+dfsg.1-1.1· amd64 · bookwormAffected
dsa · zziplib · debian · bookworm
0.13.72+dfsg.1-1.1· arm64 · bookwormAffected
dsa · zziplib · debian · bookworm
Observed:
References
- [https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/rhsa-2020_1178.json]
- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17828]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:3220-1]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:3379-1]
- [https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-17828]
- [https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2018/cve-2018-17828.json]
- [https://wid.cert-bund.de/.well-known/csaf/white/2020/wid-sec-w-2025-2548.json]
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