CVE-2026-43616
Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.
Description
Detect-It-Easy prior to 3.21 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows attackers to write arbitrary files to the filesystem by crafting malicious archive entries with relative traversal sequences or absolute paths. Attackers can exploit insufficient path normalization during archive extraction to write files outside the intended extraction directory and achieve persistent code execution by overwriting user startup scripts.
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS score
6.8
(v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
Published
2026-05-04 18:16:32.830000
Last modified
2026-10-26 19:10:00.163000
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