CVE-2021-32841 MEDIUM

CVE-2021-32841: Path Traversal in SharpZipLib

Vendor Icsharpcode
Product sharpziplib
Weakness CWE-22 · Path traversal
Published January 26, 2022
Last update April 22, 2025

CVSS base score

4.0/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

SharpZipLib (or #ziplib) is a Zip, GZip, Tar and BZip2 library. Starting version 1.3.0 and prior to version 1.3.3, a check was added if the destination file is under destination directory. However, it is not enforced that `destDir` ends with slash. If the `destDir` is not slash terminated like `/home/user/dir` it is possible to create a file with a name thats begins with the destination directory, i.e. `/home/user/dir.sh`. Because of the file name and destination directory constraints, the arbitrary file creation impact is limited and depends on the use case. Version 1.3.3 contains a patch for this vulnerability.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

January 26, 2022 CVE published
April 22, 2025 Record updated