CVE-2018-18586

Description

chmextract.c in the chmextract sample program, as distributed with libmspack before 0.8alpha, does not protect against absolute/relative pathnames in CHM files, leading to Directory Traversal. NOTE: the vendor disputes that this is a libmspack vulnerability, because chmextract.c was only intended as a source-code example, not a supported application

Risk Information

Base Score
5.3
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.515

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
SUSE-SU-2022:4287-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) libmspack-debugsource-0.4-15.13.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2022:4287-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) libmspack0-0.4-15.13.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2022:4287-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) libmspack0-debuginfo-0.4-15.13.1.x86_64.rpmLinux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234