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CVE-2020-23171 (GCVE-0-2020-23171)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-08-10 15:06 – Updated: 2024-08-04 14:58
VLAI
Summary
A vulnerability in all versions of Nim-lang allows unauthenticated attackers to write files to arbitrary directories via a crafted zip file with dot-slash characters included in the name of the crafted file.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://github.com/nim-lang/zip/issues/54 x_refsource_MISC
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