CVE-2025-64346 MEDIUM

CVE-2025-64346: archives: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Vendor Jaredallard
Product archives
Weakness CWE-22 · Path traversal
Published November 7, 2025
Last update November 7, 2025
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CVSS base score

6.0/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality —
Integrity —

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

archives is a Go library for extracting archives (tar, zip, etc.). Version 1.0.0 does not prevent a malicious user to feed a specially crafted archive to the library causing RCE, modification of files or other malignancies in the context of whatever the user is running this library as, through the program that imports it. Severity depends on user permissions, environment and how arbitrary archives are passed. This issue is fixed in version 1.0.1.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

November 7, 2025 CVE published
November 7, 2025 Record updated